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Willa Cather in Fine Books & Collections
… & Collections Feature Article in Summer 2023 issue August 1, 2023 Willa Cather, the National Willa Cather Center, and … some of her personal novels including O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . 'The land belongs to the future,' said one of the …
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Dane Church
… halo looked like a ring of cheese. Cather was furious. In 1927, a tornado destroyed the little church, and when Ondrak heard of the damage, he reportedly cried, "My Yesus! My Yesus! Blown all to hell!" The Dane Church and … Norwegian cemetery that refuses to bury Mr. Shimerda in My Ántonia ; Francis Sadilek, the prototype for Mr. Shimerda, …
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2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees
… celebrated our 2023 recipients of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and National Willa … up, Trinity Houchin (Minden High School). This year’s Ántonia Scholarship winner is Campbell Collins (Collins … awarded through the Willa Cather Foundation since 1987 total more than $200,000 and have assisted more than …
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John William Boone & Cather
… Boone & Cather "for I shall be the first... " In Cather’s My Ántonia , narrator Jim Burden encounters the ancient Roman … to render her Nebraska experiences in a new way. In a 1918 review for The Dial , Randolph Bourne writes of My …
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The Collections at National Willa Cather Center
… browse our Finding Aids or search for individual items in our Collection Gallery . Conducting Research … by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Because we offer digital assets as well as housing physical collections, we suggest … in your citation: Identification of the original item (Inventory Number, Collection name and Repository), …
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Press Room
… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, and the work of the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Contact Information … setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the …
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Country Tour
… in it, the whole country seemed somehow, to be running." — My Ántonia The Country Tour highlights twenty historic sites … of the Webster County countryside, including settings from My Ántonia, O Pioneers!, One of Ours, short stories …
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Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of … citizens led by Mildred R. Bennett, the first biographer of Cather. Upon moving to Red Cloud shortly after Cather’s … the Nature Conservancy gifted the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in 2006, the Foundation embarked on a different kind …
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Event Archives
… Art Gallery Author Series International Seminar Opera House Prairie Writers Special Events Spring Conference Image … - 8:30pm '"Raw and relentless/gaudy and extravagant": Willa Cather's New York' Join us at the 18th International Willa Cather Seminar in New York for this free program at The New …
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Honors and Achievements
… Image Cather on the Cover of Time Magazine 1931 Honors and Achievements The Pulitzer Prize & More “Miss … of Arts and Letters (1944) Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters Received a William Dean Howells … Michigan, and Nebraska The Library of Congress included My Ántonia on its list of 100 novels that shaped America …
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