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Our Final Ántonia Story!
… Image Our Final Ántonia Story! December 31, 2018 As we began celebrating the …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House
… Second Home once provided Cather with a nurturing and encouraging atmosphere in which to work, while Red Cloud and … described this house as the Ferguesson family home in her final short story, "The Best Years." Over the years, the … called Black Hawk for the town in Cather's novel, My Ántonia . The room has its own ADA- accessible entrance and …
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Serena's Album
… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
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Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead
… A new permanent exhibit "We turned to leave the cave; Ántonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children … Nebraska, the farmstead served as the setting for the final scenes of My Ántonia . Anna Sadilek Pavelka was the … the twentieth century. While the site is open for guided tours, it remains a hollow space. This reinterpretation will …
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Cather Legacy Society
… Cather Legacy Society A Planned Gift With Lasting Impact Image Mary Vaughan: Why She Joined the Cather Legacy Society A comprehensive estate plan takes into account the people, places, and causes you care about. Joining the Cather Legacy Society is an excellent way …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … for Statuary Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in …
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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 … and the Pavelka Farmstead, the rural setting for the final scenes in My Ántonia . A pivotal event was the 1962 …
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