"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it for a little while."
- O Pioneers!
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Welcome to the Willa Cather Foundation Website

The Willa Cather Foundation invites you to experience the life, times, and work of Willa Cather. Here, you can tour her home, read her work, visit her beloved Opera House, and shop the largest collection of books by and about Cather. Visit us regularly for news on conferences, publications, and information about the ongoing restoration and preservation of the largest living memorial to an author in the country, in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

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Willa Cather State Historic Site Featured in 2012 Nebraska Passport

The Willa Cather State Historic Site/Red Cloud Opera House is one of 80 attractions included in the 2012 Nebraska Passport. The program, created by the Department of Economic Development's Travel and Tourism Division, encourages travelers to explore Nebraska. Participants collect stamps fr...

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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather the poet, on poetry, and on today's poets from the Great Plains region. Cather's close readers have long noted her sharp presentation of herself as prairie poet with "P...

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Road Scholar Program: June 4-8, 2012

The Willa Cather Foundation and Road Scholar are proud to invite you to Red Cloud, Nebraska, this summer. As a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting appreciation and understanding of the life and works of Willa Cather, we would like to offer you, as committed learners, the opport...

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Rediscovering Serena’s Album

In 1888, a teenager signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” made a memorable entry in a friendship album owned by her schoolmate Serena White. And Willa Cather’s radiantly confident entry in Mental Portraits is only one of the jewels in its pages. Thanks to the generosity of Serena’s family, you can discover for yourself the treasures in it pages, in this first-ever presentation of Serena’s album in its entirety.
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