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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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Serena's Album

… consider this extraordinary album in its entirety. (For a scholarly perspective on confession albums, and on Cather’s … 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 …
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… uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and … Pavelka Farmstead to its period of significance. Readers of My Ántonia will recall the farmstead and the fruit cave from …
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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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Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… cave into the sunlight. It made me dizzy for a moment." - My Ántonia Image Located in rural Webster County, near … the farmstead served as the setting for the final scenes of My Ántonia . Anna Sadilek Pavelka was the inspiration for … Family & Homestead as Prototype/Setting for Cather's Works My Ántonia primarly but also "Neighbor Rosicky" This …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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