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Our Final Ántonia Story!

… Image Our Final Ántonia Story! December 31, 2018 As we began celebrating the …
Posted: 09/06/2018
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

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 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Support

… Shop Shop Reinterpreting the Burlington Depot Support Our Newest Exhibit The Burlington Depot has undergone … uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an … will recall the farmstead and the fruit cave from from the final scenes of the novel. Anna Sadilek Pavelka was the …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

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 …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Cather Legacy Society

… an excellent way for you to leave a legacy and help further our mission. A planned gift to the Willa Cather Foundation … to his former students turned best friends. With his final act of kindness, Loren will continue to touch the … the Immigrant Experience Abbie Loomis first discovered My Ántonia as a teenager and has been reading her mother's copy …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … not find them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

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 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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