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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 …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
… to this day. Selected Shorts was conceived with a simple premise: take great stories by well-known and …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… for this series. We will read: April 27, at 7:00 pm CT: My Ántonia June 1, at 12:30 pm CT: A Lost Lady September 21, … also scheduled in anticipation of the publication of his new biography, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa … York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 08/08/2023
Historic Sites
… built in 1883 and used until 1903. The design is modest and simple, with “poor man’s stained-glass” applied to the windows made from a simple white paint featuring swirl designs. A surprise to …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Press Room
… public to visit our virtual Press Room often for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and … Willa Cather (1873-1947) is an author of complex American stories, Cather wrote from a perspective and in a style that … O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), One of Ours (1922), A Lost Lady (1923), …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Organization History
… Cather is still widely used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, … work; the St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel My Ántonia the Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair of … and the Pavelka Farmstead, the rural setting for the final scenes in My Ántonia . A pivotal event was the 1962 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Great Plains Mini Film Festival and Panel Discussion
… experts for a moderated discussion entitled, "Telling Our Stories: How Public Art Reflects and Projects Rural Lives." … of Mort Guffman, a representative of the prestigious New York-based Oppenheimer Organization, who will (they … to an earlier exploration of the topic, Willa Cather's My Ántonia . Runtime 1h 55m. Rated PG-13. (2021) …
Posted: 01/11/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… constructed by digging a hole in the ground, then laying logs on the banks for walls, placing poles across the top …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home
… history. Her father, James Hugh Miner, was driving from New York to Las Vegas for work and had stopped in Red Cloud … in the J.L. Miner House, or the Harling House in My Ántonia . He was the grandson of the home’s namesake and son … was just three, her father and aunt Kay Jones Smith shared stories about summers in Nebraska at the J.L. Miner House. …
Posted: 03/06/2023
Last Updated: 05/04/2023
Ongoing Historic Site Restoration & Campaign Updates
… work of Willa Cather and to the community of Red Cloud. The new interpretation will be anchored around overarching … audiences, we will be able to highlight previously untold stories from a variety of voices. You may still lend your … was home to Anna Sadilek Pavelka, prototype for Cather's Ántonia. Restoration will make it available for guided tours …
Posted: 06/26/2020
Last Updated: 02/03/2023