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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

Serena's Album

… Serena White of Nuckolls County, Nebraska, received a friendship album entitled Mental Portraits , probably as a 16th … in the late 19th century, usually purchased in stationery stores rather than bookstores, and widely given as gifts to … — the opportunity to put on performances for their friends, trying on identities and experimenting with …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

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: 03/31/2026

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… House, as well as downtown restaurants and shops, a grocery store, and the Auld Public Library. Each guest bedroom has a … in the afternoon, or winding down in the evening with friends. Reservations and Policies Price for one room: … and relaxing. The only bedroom in the house with twin beds, the matching vintage-style quilts and colorful braided …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

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 … cave into the sunlight. It made me dizzy for a moment." - My Ántonia Image Located in rural Webster County, near … welcome reception. Commemorative exhibit bookmark.   Set of notecards featuring illustrations by Władysław T. Benda …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Cather Legacy Society

… capital gains and/or estate tax. Please see your financial manager for more information. Charitable Lead Trust:  Set up …
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 … —Watch a recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional … as if surrounded by nature, at home in the Nebraska prairie.” Cather’s likeness will join less than a dozen …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Organization History

… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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