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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather
… Welcome to the home of Willa Cather Willa Cather Willa Cather is one of the most … Faulkner and Wharton. Life & Literature Recent News Shop Books & Gifts The Willa Cather Foundation is a … and humanities programs, and preservation of historical settings and archives, we serve as a vibrant memorial to …
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Discover
… Writers For Teachers For Teachers For Students For Students Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
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The Willa Cather Foundation
… advancing Willa Cather's legacy locally and beyond through education, preservation, and the arts. Our Vision: People … family, as well as other period pieces; Allocation of scholarships to high school students and graduate students … great American writer. Through our scholarly endeavors, educational outreach, arts and humanities programs, and …
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Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains
Image Image Helicotylenchus, the "spiral" nematode, collected at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie A special science exhibition in the West Atrium Art Gallery Monday, Mar 17 - Saturday, May 17, 2025 | All day The beauty and diversity of the Great Plains …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
… from photographs—or both? I do both. Sometimes a photo is involved but I may add some remembered things which could be … or stenciling with no end in mind. Something usually will get my imagination going and in the end it actually is a … nothing was told to me and my imagination put the story together. Hopefully I tell the story in the way the painting …
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National Willa Cather Center Hours & Directions
… (70 miles north of Red Cloud) The airport offers Budget and Thrifty car rental services. Take South Highway 281 … northeast of Red Cloud) The Lincoln airport offers Avis, Budget, Hertz, National, Alamo, and Enterprise rental car … to K 181 North, and continue north into Red Cloud. Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist
… Nebraska Master Naturalist Take a Guided Prairie Tour August 6, 2024 Our visitor services coordinator and expert … University of Nebraska. Nick has been with the Willa Cather Foundation since January 2022 and is currently pursuing a … to get better at the Prairie Tour, particularly talking about the plants and animals that live on the prairie. I …
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Press Room
… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), One of Ours …
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Organization History
… Willa Cather Memorial against the flowing years, last we forget the precious heritage that is ours through her. Here … destinations to explore Cather's life, writing, and times. Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society
… about.” Considering this, it’s not surprising that when getting their affairs in order prior to a trip to Egypt in … roots are deep in the town of Red Cloud, Jay has been involved with the Willa Cather Foundation for as long as he … or a pure historic preservation society, you wouldn’t get so many different people from so many different realms …
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