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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather
… forward to welcoming you! Book a Tour About the Restoration Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
Posted: 12/07/2022
Last Updated: 10/07/2024
Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift
… Cather’s writing for the first time. “Like many students, my entry [to Cather] was My Ántonia ,” Kohout said. “It just spoke to me. Her writing … stops include Quebec City and Jaffrey, New Hampshire. “My heart is drawn back there, and Cather loved it too,” …
Posted: 09/10/2024
Last Updated: 10/01/2024
Annotations from the Archives: October is American Archives Month
… Archives Month, a time when we educate students and patrons about the value of archives. It’s easy to make the … the very fabric of democracy, since the French Revolution ushered in the idea of centralized, publicly accessible … you might imagine! In our organization's earliest days, Mildred Bennett, our founder, spent a great deal of time …
Posted: 09/29/2024
Last Updated: 10/01/2024
Support
… IRA Rollover Charitable IRA Rollover Volunteer Volunteer Opera House Sponsor Opera House Sponsor Conference Sponsor Conference Sponsor …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/01/2024
Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda
… a discussion of Svoboda’s answer to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia ! Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as …
Posted: 08/14/2024
Last Updated: 09/23/2024
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 …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 09/20/2024
Reinterpreting the Burlington Depot
… uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and … Depot ( thread on canvas). 100th anniversary copy of My Ántonia . $5,000 X X X X X X $2,500 X X X X X $1,000 X …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 09/20/2024
Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk
… their migration. Like the character she inspired in My Ántonia , Emily Caroline Smith Cather moved to Nebraska … the Garbers in A Lost Lady , the Burdens and Miners in My Ántonia , and Dr. Archie in The Song of the Lark . … as Emmaline Burden, is an important character in My Ántonia as the grandmother of the novel's narrator, Jim …
Posted: 08/26/2024
Last Updated: 09/18/2024
Cather Legacy Society
… by the Immigrant Experience Abbie Loomis first discovered My Ántonia as a teenager and has been reading her mother's …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 09/13/2024
Reading Willa Cather
… Cather’s groundbreaking fiction (including O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , and Death …
Posted: 09/06/2024
Last Updated: 09/06/2024