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I have visited the home and/or home territory of many authors in the U.S. and the U.K., but visiting Red Cloud, Nebraska, where Willa Cather spent her youth stands as out as my most empathic literary experience. The characters and settings of her novels and stories grew out of the people and places which she knew throughout her formative years. Sites right in Red Cloud include the house where she lived, the Farmer’s and Merchant’s Bank (Garber’s bank) , the St. Juliana Catholic Church, the Grace Episcopal Church, and the Burlington and Missouri Railroad Depot all of which figure prominently in such well-known novels and stories as My Antonia, A Lost Lady, “Neighbor Rosicky,” etc. A self-driving tour map is available for visitors to follow outside the town to explore landscapes and landmarks such as the farmhouses, dugouts, graves, homesteads, etc. of early settlers and which appear over and over in Cather’s writings, most especially My Antonia. A “must stop” is the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, more than six hundred acres of virgin Nebraska prairie land. I hope that you too get to enjoy a few minutes as the solitary visitor standing in the tall grass listening to it whisper around you as an accompaniment to the songs of birds and insects. Mary Ellen Scribner Head/Secondary Librarian Lincoln Community School c/o American Embassy Box 194 Accra, Ghana Phone: (233) 21-774-018 Fax: (233) 21-780-985 mescribner@lincoln.edu.gh _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------