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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
… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not … to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] Visitors to Red Cloud are invited to book a stay at … a shared half bathroom. Named after the Nebraska town in O Pioneers! , the room is above the former kitchen with its …
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Serena's Album
… Serena's Album Loading Serena's Album Rediscovering Serena’s Album In February … with his chief ambition in life as recorded on the left: “Get Married.” His failure to complete his entry here … as his favorite prose writer. Right Edward Short’s entries touch on topical subjects that would appear in Willa …
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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 …
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Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead
… Pavelka was the inspiration for Ántonia Shimerda, arguably Willa Cather's most famous character and the namesake for her 1918 … Your name on the exhibit panel. Commemorative My Ántonia poster featuring more than a dozen book cover designs. A …
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Cather Legacy Society
… to the Foundation Why a Bequest? This simple method of remembering the Willa Cather Foundation assures that some … appropriate to their tax situation. Cather Legacy Society Member Stories Loren Johnson Cather Devotion Inspires Legacy … as a young scholar that compelled Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder to become a member of the Willa Cather Foundation – and …
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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
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of … the Nature Conservancy gifted the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in 2006, the Foundation embarked on a different kind … expand educational outreach, and establish an endowment to support long-term preservation of the historic sites. …
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