Search Results
169 results found
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… "Chasing Bright Medusas" Discussion #3: The Professor's House Special Events Thursday, Sep 21, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Discussion #3: The Professor's House As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to … third study in this series will focus on The Professor's House , a novel that showcases Cather's evolution as an …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 08/08/2023
Willa Cather in Fine Books & Collections
… some of her personal novels including O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . 'The land belongs to the future,' said one of …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
Dane Church
… and when Ondrak heard of the damage, he reportedly cried, "My Yesus! My Yesus! Blown all to hell!" The Dane Church and cemetery … Norwegian cemetery that refuses to bury Mr. Shimerda in My Ántonia ; Francis Sadilek, the prototype for Mr. …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 07/21/2023
2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees
Image From L to R: Trinity Houchin, Ava Hoffschneider, Autumn Wissenburg, and Ella K. Gaskill 2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees Awarded at our 68th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference July 7, 2023 On Friday, June …
Posted: 07/07/2023
Last Updated: 07/16/2023
John William Boone & Cather
… Boone & Cather "for I shall be the first... " In Cather’s My Ántonia , narrator Jim Burden encounters the ancient … is "On Working the Land." From the Georgics comes the My Ántonia 's epigraph, “Optima dies . . . prima fugit.” The … a 1918 review for The Dial , Randolph Bourne writes of My Ántonia , “Here at last is an American novel, redolent …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023
The Collections at National Willa Cather Center
… Water Image Steriopticon Image Original illustration from My Ántonia The Collections at National Willa Cather Center …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 06/28/2023
Press Room
… O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), One of Ours (1922), A Lost Lady …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Country Tour
… in it, the whole country seemed somehow, to be running." — My Ántonia The Country Tour highlights twenty historic sites … of the Webster County countryside, including settings from My Ántonia, O Pioneers!, One of Ours, short stories …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Organization History
… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Event Archives
… International Seminar Opera House Prairie Writers Special Events Spring Conference Image Children dancing in the 2023 … Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library Special Events: Tuesday, Jun 25, 2024 | 6:30 - 7:30pm ET In … on Wednesday at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home Special Events: Wednesday, Jun 19, 2024 | 5:30 - 6:30pm Wednesday, …
Posted: 02/23/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023