 "Food and Drink in Willa Cather's Writing" takes place June 3-5,2010, in Red Cloud, Nebraska, and features Susan Meyer from Wellesley College as keynote speaker. Our biggest event of the year, The Willa Cather Spring Conference, is online now, and registration is underway! An amazing lineu... Read More |
 NET Television interviewed more than a dozen Cather scholars for the American Masters TV special Willa Cather—The Road is All. Highlights from these interviews will be coming soon to the Cather Web Site, including: · Pulitzer Prize winning historian, David McCullough, · New Yorker c... Read More |
 "On my way East I broke my journey at Hastings, in Nebraska, and set off with an open buggy and a fairly good livery team to find the Cuzak farm. At a little past midday, I knew I must be nearing my destination. Set back on a swell of land at my right, I saw a wide farm-house, with a red ... Read More |
Barbara and Kern Wisman of Jerusalem, Israel talk about their visit to the Willa Cather Foundation.
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 The Willa Cather Foundation is now seeking 20-minute papers for presentation in two panels devoted specifically to Cather scholarship at the American Literature Association meeting in San Francisco, May 27-30, 2010. Topics: We seek the best and most innovative of ongoing Cather scholarship... Read More |
 Willa Cather taught in a writers' workshop in 1922, at Middlebury College, while working on her novel A Lost Lady. Upon the completion of her five-session course, her students saluted her with a witless poem: "Oh Miss Cather, when we gather/ For your talks so wise and clear/ Now you'r... Read More |
 The Right Reverend Frank T. Griswold, XXV Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, addresses the Cather Spring Conference. "It would not be an exaggeration to say that Willa Cather is partly responsible for my choosing the path I have chosen." A singularly memorable event during the 2009 ... Read More |
 While selecting photographs from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Archives and Special Collections for a gallery exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House, I came across one image that I liked very much. In it, Willa Cather is holding a small baby, her niece Helen Louise Cather, and they are... Read More |
The website for the Willa Cather Foundation received a Merit Certificate for excellence from the Lincoln, Nebraska chapter of the American Marketing Association at its annual Prism Awards luncheon in May 2009. The award recognizes the website's striking design and strong functionality, an... Read More |
 "Fiction and Art": A fiction writing workshop, with a careful look at art and design in Nebraska narratives. The Willa Cather Foundation would like to invite you to attend this year's Prairie Writers' Workshop scheduled for July 13 through 17. This is an exceptional opportunity for aspiri... Read More |
 Red Cloud: Willa Cather's Window to the World June 15-19, 2009 Hosting the nation's largest living memorial to an American author, the Willa Cather Foundation invites you to Red Cloud, Nebraska and into the exciting work of Willa Cather. Our five-day program will offer you a true immers... Read More |
 The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to announce the completion of a prescribed burn on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. As part of an extensive restoration project funded by the Nebraska Environmental Trust, the Willa Cather Foundation burned 200 acres of the 608-acre Willa Cather Memo... Read More |
 WISDOM IN THE LATER NEBRASKA FICTION: OBSCURE DESTINIES, LUCY GAYHEART, AND "THE BEST YEARS" The 2009 Spring Conference will focus on religious, moral, and spiritual themes in some of Cather's prairie fiction. Special speakers will include Bishop Frank Griswold (former Presiding Bishop ... Read More |
 Willa Cather chose to place an accent over the first syllable in her memorable character's name — Ántonia — to indicate the greater stress that syllable would receive when the name was pronounced. Visitors to this site will note that except in rare instances, we have not included the ... Read More |
 I have said before that the Middle Ground of the Cather Foundation is indeed broad reaching out from its center in Red Cloud to the far corners of the world. But sometimes, the world comes to Red Cloud.Today the Middle Ground of the Cather Foundation announces an exhibition of internationa... Read More |
 Today the Willa Cather Foundation is delighted to announce its involvement in the Heritage Highway photo contest. For those who may be wondering how a photo contest pertains to the work of the Willa Cather Foundation, the byway is a 238-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 136 that cuts right thr... Read More |
