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Willa Cather Educational Posters, Books, Links for Learning
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• “Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
• “It was over flat lands like this, stretching out to drink the sun that the larks sang – and one's heart sang there too.” - The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather
b. 12-7-1873; Gore, Virginia
d. 4-24-1947; NYC
Books & video about and by Willa Cather
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - this powerful early Cather novel, a landmark of American fiction, tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm. In Alexandra’s lifelong fight to survive and succeed, Cather relates an important chapter in the history of the American frontier, evoking the harsh grandeur of the prairie, and comparing with keen insight the experiences of Swedish, French and Bohemian immigrants in the United States.
O Pioneers! Video (1992)
My Antonia by Willa Cather - In Willa Cather's own estimation, My Antonia, first published in 1918, was “the best thing I've ever done.” This hauntingly eloquent classic now boasts a new foreword by Kathleen Norris, Cather's soulmate of the plains. Infused with a gracious passion for the land, My Antonia embraces its uncommon subject - the hardscrabble life of the pioneer woman on the prairie - with poetic certitude, rendering a deeply moving portrait of an entire community. Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia Shimerda.
My Antonia, Video, 1995
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather - a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter
LINKS FOR LEARNING : WILLA CATHER
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• WILLA CATHER EDUCATIONAL POSTERS
Literature and Language Arts Posters
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Willa Cather
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.” O Pioneers!
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Willa Cather's My Antonia History Through Literature -Wall Poster
Poster Text: Willa Cather's My Antonia is about ... life on the Great Plains in the late 1800s. The family struggles ... about the difficulties of being pioneers in the untamed land learning a differnt language and culture in a ... country. This 1886 photograph shows a Nebraska family in front of its sod house, typical of the dwelling found on the Great Plains of the time.
“Cautiously I slipped from under the buffalo hide, got up on my knees and peered over the side of the wagon. There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields, If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.” My Antonia
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Willa Cather, who spent her childhood in the small railroad town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, used Red Cloud as a prototype for many of the fictional villages in her novels and short stories.
The town, founded in 1871, was named after Red Cloud, the chief of the Oglala division of the Teton-Lakota Sioux.
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