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Annotations from the Archives: October is American Archives Month

… though, let’s think small. Since we will soon kick off our My Ántonia Big Read activities, let’s start there and focus on the myriad things we’ve learned about the novel—and its … editions of each one, and the artwork that was featured in My Ántonia. All of these publication-related items make up …
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Support

… life into a 1901 structure. In addition to aligning with our commitment to historic preservation, the property will … Farmstead to its period of significance. Readers of My Ántonia 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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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 …
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Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk

… their migration. Like the character she inspired in  My Ántonia , Emily Caroline Smith Cather moved to Nebraska from … movement of well-established U.S. families who sought new opportunity in the American West. The Cathers themselves … from other countries and migrants from the U.S. The stories are different—one group generally more financially …
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Cather Legacy Society

… Cather Legacy Society A Planned Gift With Lasting Impact Image Mary Vaughan: Why She Joined … by the Immigrant Experience Abbie Loomis first discovered My Ántonia as a teenager and has been reading her mother's copy …
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Reading Willa Cather

… Cather’s groundbreaking fiction (including O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , and Death …
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Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

… as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain … eastern and western meadowlarks, eastern and western king birds, upland plovers, wild turkeys, bobolinks and other New … the Chicken Dance Trail. We are also partners in the  Great Plains Ecotourism Coalition. The Cather Prairie also boasts …
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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 …
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For Students

… Turner Scholarship Antonette Willa Skupa Turner Scholarship Antonia Scholarship Antonia Scholarship Wilson Scholarship Wilson Scholarship …
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Guided Seven Building Town Tour

… depot in many of her works, such as in an early scene in  My Ántonia . The Depot also figures prominently in “The … home is the J. L. Miner House, the home described in  My Àntonia , where Ántonia worked. Anna Sadilek Pavelka, the …
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