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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for their … Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable … success as a farm family, it also symbolizes the immigrant stories and rich multiculturalism that shaped the Great …
Posted: 08/23/2024
Last Updated: 08/23/2024
Guided Willa Cather Tours
… four historic sites featured in Willa Cather's 1918 novel My Ántonia. Guests should have their own transportation and … of the Webster County countryside, including settings from My Ántonia, O Pioneers!, One of Ours, short stories …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/23/2024
Willa Cather Memorial Prairie
… it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running. — My Ántonia The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is open to … earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers. I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I … to be dissolved into something complete and great. —My Ántonia Can't visit in person? Take a virtual prairie …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/16/2024
Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… Detective" Educators can put these resources to use in myriad ways. Bellringers utilitizing archival resources are … text. This cartoon , though published thirty years before My Ántonia , draws inspiration from a popular motif that … does a threshing machine work?" The page below, related to My Ántonia, is an example of an FAQ Sheet exercise. Not only …
Posted: 07/29/2024
Last Updated: 08/07/2024
For Students
… Turner Scholarship Antonette Willa Skupa Turner Scholarship Antonia Scholarship Antonia Scholarship Wilson Scholarship Wilson Scholarship …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 07/24/2024
Guided Seven Building Town Tour
… possessions still displayed there, as well as the family’s household items throughout the home. Burlington Depot 437 W. … of “Poor Marty,” and Mahailey of One of Ours . Red Cloud Opera House 413 N Webster Street It was in the Red Cloud Opera House that Willa Cather first experienced theater and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/15/2024
Short Biography of Willa Cather
… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in Back Creek … , Cather left the magazine to focus full-time on her own writing. In subsequent decades Cather wrote prolifically. …
Posted: 05/04/2023
Last Updated: 07/12/2024
Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House
… bedroom, called Black Hawk for the town in Cather's novel, My Ántonia . The room has its own ADA- accessible entrance …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/01/2024
Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… June 7, 2023 A bronze sculpture of Willa Cather by artist Littleton Alston was dedicated and unveiled in … year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln … —Watch a recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024
Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!
… senior year of high school when her literature class read My Ántonia . Drawn in not only by Cather’s strong prose, …
Posted: 06/12/2024
Last Updated: 06/14/2024