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Our Final Ántonia Story!

… Image Our Final Ántonia Story! December 31, 2018 As we began celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the … this beloved novel is important to them. (To download the  Winter 2018 issue, click HERE .) As these stories arrived in … amazed and delighted and moved by them. I was surprised by how different they were, and by how they spoke to each …
Posted: 09/06/2018
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Serena's Album

… earnest, or in jest,” but this separate document has been lost. The list of questions posed in Mental Portraits is … traveling companion, Adella Hurlbutt specifies “A Cultured Lady.” She is the soul of practicality in her desire if … owners, Sir William Vestey, the first Baron Vestey. Lady Vestey died in 1941 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Support

… Support Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of … Sponsor Shop Shop Reinterpreting the Burlington Depot Support Our Newest Exhibit The Burlington Depot has … to donate it to a nonprofit within a year. The Willa Cather Foundation is continuing to work alongside stakeholders in …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 03/31/2026

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, … guest rooms and two-and-a-half baths.  Book Now on Airbnb About the Guest House Image The Cather Second Home is a … rug evoke what Alexandra Bergson may have had in her own prairie farmhouse. Cozy and low-ceiled, as Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… credit panel. Sponsors' logos will be included with donations beginning at the $2,500 level. Pledges are payable …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Cather Legacy Society

… options Other vehicles in which to make a charitable donation include: Gifts of closely held stock Securities or …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

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 …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Organization History

… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of … fictional worlds. Bennett’s 1951 biography  The World of Willa Cather  is still widely used by scholars as a valuable …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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