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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 …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa … 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 …
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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 …
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Pavelka Farmstead

… 4 near Bladen. Restored and managed by the National Willa Cather Center, the Pavelka Farmstead was chosen as one of … My Ántonia at 100 (issue theme) —  Willa Cather Review, Volume 60: No. 3, Winter 2018 New Scholarship on My Ántonia … Plains Quarterly , Spring 1994, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln From the National …
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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 …
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Novels

… to contribute a lesson plan or activity based on teaching Willa Cather in your classroom, please contact director of … so far—he, who was so afraid of being fooled!" Willa Cather Review , Vol. 63.2 Summer 2022 Telling War Stories: The …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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