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Willa Cather in Fine Books & Collections
… "A century and a half after her birth, Willa Cather (1873-1947) remains closely associated with the Great Plains. The … 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
… 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
… 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 … or visit this link . Application information for 2024 is available at www.willacather.org and annual deadlines …
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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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The Collections at National Willa Cather Center
… Image Annotations from the Archive: Cather in Santa Fe Image A 1909 Omaha Bee advertisement for Apollinaris Water Image Steriopticon Image Original illustration from My …
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Press Room
… Image Press Room We invite journalists, editors, bloggers, and the … Press Room often for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and announcements. Please … Red Cloud through the ongoing efforts of the Willa Cather Foundation and their National Willa Cather Center . Media …
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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 … County that had been intertwined with Cather’s fictional worlds. Bennett’s 1951 biography The World of Willa Cather …
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Event Archives
… in Red Cloud will be a celebration of 150 years of Willa Cather’s life and work. As part of that celebration, we will … be reading poetry from his book The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks. The book …
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Honors and Achievements
… Medal from the National Institute 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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