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Willa Cather: Life & Literature
… influenced the novels Sapphira and the Slave Girl and My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. Please …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… for this series. We will read: April 27, at 7:00 pm CT: My Ántonia June 1, at 12:30 pm CT: A Lost Lady September … Benjamin Taylor received a 2021 Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir Here We Are was …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
Book Club Resources
… Book Club Resources The National Willa Cather Center can provide … your book club. Please contact Rachel Olsen, Director of Education and Engagement at rolsen@willacather.org to …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023
Reading Willa Cather with Mary Stuart Masterston & Jeremy Davidson
… Image Willa Cather, Mary Stuart Masterston, Jeremy Davidson, Hailey McAvoy, Jonathan Lawlor, Nomin Sandon … century. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , Death Comes for the Archbishop ) … feature readings from actors Mary Stuart Masterson and Jeremy Davidson , plus musical performances by Hailey McAvoy …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 09/27/2023
Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… come and go, but the land is always here...” —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the prairie settings … at rolsen@willacather.org or or (402) 746-2653. LODGING : We offer comfortable and unique historic lodging … skies, and stay safe while you visit! Click HERE for more about our prairie guidelines. In 2023, celebrate our native …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023
Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience
… Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My Ántonia was among the Cather books on her shelf the day … read. Since then she’s continued to read Cather, but it’s My Ántonia that she revisits every few years. “Once I found … at that time in Victorian literature and academia, so I got my MLS and eventually ended up here at the University of …
Posted: 09/08/2023
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
Pavelka Farmstead
… Pavelka Farmstead “We turned to leave the cave; Antonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children … of life out of the dark cave into the sunlight.” — My Ántonia The Pavelka Farmstead and the fruit cave described in My Antonia , from which the children emerged in a burst of …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
A Visit with Sarah Arneson
… later won a medal in an Austrian shooting competition. “My parents worked and saved so that I could go to college … numerous coincidences of Cather's character, ‘Thea’ with my own.” Sarah knew Mildred Bennett in Red Cloud, who was … English was her high school music teacher. “He encouraged my singing when I thought it was nothing special. I was …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023
Novels
… of the Great War Explore the One of Ours Collections Group My Ántonia Meet a Heroine in American Fiction "There seemed … and Literature Miscellany , Vol. 1.2 July 2019 Document My Ántonia Classroom Resource 9.63 MB The Song of the Lark …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/28/2023
Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
… One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . This special evening of short fiction in …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023