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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a lot,’” Harris … didn’t hit Red Cloud, but you know, I think so much of my enjoyment has been sharing those experiences, and not … are certainly one of the many positive things in my life,” Harris said. Harris’s latest interest has been …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… bedroom, called Black Hawk for the town in Cather's novel,  My Ántonia . The room has its own ADA- accessible entrance …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… plots are woven into novels and short stories such as My Ántonia , The Song of the Lark , "The Sculptor's …
Posted: 08/18/2025
Last Updated: 10/14/2025

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… uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and … Pavelka Farmstead to its period of significance. Readers of My Ántonia will recall the farmstead and the fruit cave from …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk

… their migration. Like the character she inspired in  My Ántonia , Emily Caroline Smith Cather moved to Nebraska … the Garbers in  A Lost Lady , the Burdens and Miners in  My Ántonia , ​and Dr. Archie in  The Song of the Lark . … as Emmaline Burden, is an important character in  My Ántonia  as the grandmother of the novel's narrator, Jim …
Posted: 08/26/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… cave into the sunlight. It made me dizzy for a moment." - My Ántonia Image Located in rural Webster County, near … the farmstead served as the setting for the final scenes of My Ántonia . Anna Sadilek Pavelka was the inspiration for … Family & Homestead as Prototype/Setting for Cather's Works My Ántonia primarly but also "Neighbor Rosicky" This …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience

… Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My Ántonia was among the Cather books on her shelf the day … read. Since then she’s continued to read Cather, but it’s My Ántonia that she revisits every few years.  “Once I found … at that time in Victorian literature and academia, so I got my MLS and eventually ended up here at the University of …
Posted: 09/08/2023
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home

… generation in the J.L. Miner House, or the Harling House in My Ántonia . He was the grandson of the home’s namesake and … Sherwood and Irene Miner Weisz, to whom Cather dedicated My Ántonia . After graduating from Red Cloud High School, … history and reading Cather to learn more. “It was really My Ántonia that started it all,” she said. “Being able to …
Posted: 03/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… glad he was from Red Cloud. That has brought Cather into my life, and so many meaningful experiences and … enjoy the experience of human connection. Of course there’s my interest in Cather and her work. But in the long run, … experience of being in Cather’s hometown. “If you read  My Ántonia , for example, the land truly becomes one of the …
Posted: 07/13/2016
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift

… Cather’s writing for the first time. “Like many students, my entry [to Cather] was  My Ántonia ,” Kohout said. “It just spoke to me. Her writing … stops include Quebec City and Jaffrey, New Hampshire. “My heart is drawn back there, and Cather loved it too,” …
Posted: 09/10/2024
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

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