tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7537710969098290410..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Only On The Map - Hadley & DruryAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-17557639555347253412010-10-08T15:17:03.835-04:002010-10-08T15:17:03.835-04:00Willa Cather buried in NH! Whooda thunk it? I woul...Willa Cather buried in NH! Whooda thunk it? I wouldn't have. Willa Cather is one of my favorite authors. In reading My Antonia, I got the impression, rare in a book, that if she wasn't writing about MY PEOPLE, she was writing about people I knew. It wasn't just that a great-grandmother of mine died on a homestead in Nebraska. Cather had an ear for the spoken language. She used a word that I have heard only my grandmother and her friends use. She caught Slavic immigrant phrasing in Nebraska that I heard growing up in NE. <br /><br />And 202 runs through my sister-in-law's hometown.<br /><br />Interesting that Robert Frost taught your grandfather.Girngonoreply@blogger.com