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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

… Richard II: “Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.” The “autographic confessions” in Serena’s album span … drew upon Mary for Julia, the musical Harling sister, in My Ántonia , and Mary played the Beast in the production of … C. Laslette,” minister there from March to May, 1899. (The final e on his name begins to appear in records about this …
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

… bedroom is called Sweet Water after the town in  A Lost Lady . Adjoining Frankfort by an interior door which may be …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… Pavelka was the inspiration for Ántonia Shimerda, arguably Willa Cather's most famous character and the namesake for her 1918 … cellar, which is an important symbol in Cather’s work. More About the Project Image Key themes of the exhibit will …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Cather Legacy Society

… and provide financial security to enable us to engage in long-range planning. Your planned gift will benefit visitors … 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, 413 North Webster Street, Red Cloud, Nebraska 68970, to provide funding for (program … Miner Drew Preserving the Miner Legacy It was a chance roadtrip with her father after college that first interested …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

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

… are twelve inches tall, mounted on a polished walnut base, and each individually signed by the artist. Proceeds …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Organization History

… Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of local … expand educational outreach, and establish an endowment to support long-term preservation of the historic sites. … Potter Block into Hotel Garber. The campaign also aims to support the addition of collections and program staff, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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