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Group and Motorcoach Tours
… Willa Cather Center Bookstore for curated books and gifts Explore the extensive Collections & Archives at the National Willa Cather Center … can accommodate motor coach groups Life & Legacy Tour Learn Through Film, Exhibits, and Collections An expert-led …
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A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity
… A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity 2025 Year-End Campaign The Mammel Foundation has generously offered … to inspire you to make a donation this year. To qualify for the challenge, your gift must be received by December … you help ensure that her work is ever present—and that future generations continue to learn, reflect, and be …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift
… to study Cather on a variety of topics, presenting at conferences and seminars, contributing to the Willa Cather … 2013 Harris has been a regular attendee at the Willa Cather Spring Conference since 1987, and he’s traveled across the …
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Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk
… metal surfaces should also be cleaned to reduce corrosion products. A protective coating should be applied. Additional …
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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 …
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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 … 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 …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home
… Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home March 6, 2023 It was a chance roadtrip with her father … Harling House in My Ántonia . He was the grandson of the home’s namesake and son of Charles Hugh Miner and Alfretta … her grandfather Miner moved with his wife back to her home state to raise their family. While he died when Jaydene …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society
… Image A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society July 13, 2016 “ I feel blessed that … says Wade. “Honestly, it taught me the importance of supporting in a financial way the things you care about.” … they’ve enjoyed, whether it’s the historic buildings, the prairie, or the Opera House. “It has brought a lot to us as …
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Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift
… Legacy Gift September 6, 2024 During the Willa Cather Spring Conference, Sharon Kohout always makes time to say hello to … and visitors can experience the same engaging tours, conferences, and seminars that she has. “The Willa Cather …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… Detective" Educators can put these resources to use in myriad ways. Bellringers that use archival resources are … text. This cartoon , though published thirty years before My Ántonia , draws inspiration from a popular motif that … does a threshing machine work?" The page below, related to My Ántonia, is an example of an FAQ Sheet exercise. Not only …
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