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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… Gift Inspired by Decades of Rich Cather Experiences October 15, 2025 Willa Cather may not have been Richard Harris’s … were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a lot,’” Harris …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… is called Moonstone for the town in Cather's novel  The Song of the Lark . During Cather's time, this was the room of Willa's …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! Due to its subject matter, this tour is for guests age 21 and older.  Have you ever wondered … to book one 75-minute tour to visit the Willa Cather Childhood Home, Burlington Depot, and J.L. Miner House while viewing …
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Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk

… their migration. Like the character she inspired in  My Ántonia , Emily Caroline Smith Cather moved to Nebraska from … husband, Willa’s grandfather, moved to Webster County in 1877.   The Cather’s pioneer settlement of the Great Plains …
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Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… contribute $1,000 or more will be featured on the exhibit's credit panel. Sponsors' logos will be included with …
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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 … Cather’s most famous character and the namesake for her 1918 novel, My Ántonia. “You can see it now, the children …
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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 son … After her quick stop in Red Cloud with her father in the 1990s, Jaydene began researching her Miner family history …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… to mind for them is a performance of the opera,  The Bohemian Girl , that was staged to help celebrate the re-opening of …
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Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift

… an emotion that I can relate to. Her use of the language is simple, but evocative. She was a craftsman, but she makes me …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources

… the twentieth century. The zine also features archival images of Cather, words to the original music written for …
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