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

… understanding of the immigrant experience September 8, 2023 Abbie Loomis was thirteen years old when she discovered … Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My Ántonia was among the Cather books on her shelf the day …
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Pavelka Farmstead

… 4 near Bladen. Restored and managed by the National Willa Cather Center, the Pavelka Farmstead was chosen as one of … My Ántonia at 100 (issue theme) —  Willa Cather Review, Volume 60: No. 3, Winter 2018 New Scholarship on My Ántonia … Plains Quarterly , Spring 1994, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln From the National …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… recalled. “I was cast in an opera at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and fell in love with it.”  After college, … I thought it was nothing special. I was surrounded by good voices. I had classmates with lovely voices. My mother's family all seemed to have excellent …
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Novels

… to contribute a lesson plan or activity based on teaching Willa Cather in your classroom, please contact director of … so far—he, who was so afraid of being fooled!" Willa Cather Review , Vol. 63.2 Summer 2022 Telling War Stories: The …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… Image A special and collaborative evening of celebration! Image Image Image THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2023 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT Image Cather at 150 … and the critically acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… Discussion #3: The Professor's House As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed … , and Bellow’s  There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a  New   York Times  Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag,  Debriefing , was published by …
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Willa Cather in Fine Books & Collections

… Image Fine Books & Collections • Summer 2023 Image Article in Fine Books & Collections Willa Cather in … Nebraska inspired some of her personal novels including O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . 'The land belongs to the future,' …
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Dane Church

… and when Ondrak heard of the damage, he reportedly cried, "My Yesus! My Yesus! Blown all to hell!" The Dane Church and cemetery … 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

… Hoffschneider, Autumn Wissenburg, and Ella K. Gaskill 2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of … 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 …
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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 … is "On Working the Land." From the  Georgics   comes the  My Ántonia 's epigraph, “Optima dies . . . prima fugit.” The …
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