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Virtual Book Talk with Julie Olin-Ammentorp
… The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence , and Cather’s My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Yet despite …
Posted: 01/15/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Annotations From the Archive: John Mallory Bates
… scientific-minded. Before her marriage she taught Astronomy and Mathematics at Wellesley College, the first professor … butterfly milkweed ( Asclepias tuberosa ) in her novel My Ántonia ; Bates didn’t believe it to be extant in the … to make the subject anything more than an incident in my life and a side issue on the nature study I love so …
Posted: 01/27/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… took a Bergers piece with her: a Cather-inspired scene from My Ántonia , with Blind d’Arnault taking the Red Cloud Opera … time for me and knowing you has been a blessing. I look at my blind pianist hanging on my bedroom wall and dream of Red Cloud.” Harris continued …
Posted: 10/20/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… “a kind of freemasonry,” as Willa Cather called it in My Ántonia . Their stories enhanced our understanding of … Ludlow Tennant, 1958: It was some eighty years ago that my grandfather, William Ludlow, a retired minister, …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations From the Archive: Soldiers' Letters
… time in getting to work on telling her cousin's story. My Ántonia was set to be published in September of that … of the illustrations. She enjoyed many wonderful reviews of My Ántonia , but by December she wrote to her editor, Ferris … story, which had been set aside previously as Cather began My Ántonia , and the other was “the soldier story.” One of …
Posted: 09/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… to know that the story has rung true to someone besides myself . . . . Anyone who has lived in one of those little … in his 1921 letter, “but when I got into your book- “My Antonia” [sic] - it so interested me that I stayed up …
Posted: 08/17/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home
… generation in the J.L. Miner House, or the Harling House in My Ántonia . He was the grandson of the home’s namesake and … Sherwood and Irene Miner Weisz, to whom Cather dedicated My Ántonia . After graduating from Red Cloud High School, … history and reading Cather to learn more. “It was really My Ántonia that started it all,” she said. “Being able to …
Posted: 03/06/2023
Last Updated: 05/04/2023
10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!
… border. You are free to explore or book a guided Prairie Tour to learn more about the natural history of this incredible … 10. Visit the National Willa Cather Center—and Red Cloud—virtually! If you can’t visit us just yet, virtually tour …
Posted: 04/18/2023
Last Updated: 05/02/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… in anticipation of the publication of his new biography, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather. You can pre-order Taylor's …
Posted: 03/28/2023
Last Updated: 04/27/2023
A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society
… glad he was from Red Cloud. That has brought Cather into my life, and so many meaningful experiences and … enjoy the experience of human connection. Of course there’s my interest in Cather and her work. But in the long run, … experience of being in Cather’s hometown. “If you read My Ántonia , for example, the land truly becomes one of the …
Posted: 07/13/2016
Last Updated: 03/06/2023