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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

… a shared half bathroom. Named after the Nebraska town in  O Pioneers! , the room is above the former kitchen with its …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2026

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 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… for her 1918 novel. The floor plan of house was restored to its period of significance in 2021. The foundation … questions: Why is this site/object/person important to Red Cloud? Why is this site/object/person important to the life … organization in our local community, as well as attract new visitors to our sites—those who may be interested in …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Cather Legacy Society

… in long-range planning. Your planned gift will benefit visitors from around the globe, and help in our pursuit to … 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, 413 North Webster Street, Red Cloud, Nebraska 68970, to provide funding for (program area …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

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

… and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career and introduce … literature and correspondence remain the subject of scholarly inquiry. Her writing has been translated into more …
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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