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Visit this page often for the latest Cather-related news as well as information about the Willa Cather Foundation's programs, collections, and events.

View "Portraits of the Prairie" Exhibit

View "Portraits of the Prairie" Exhibit

Friday, November 4, 2011
It is often called "Catherland"-Webster County, Nebraska, where the quintessential American novelist Willa Cather spent her childhood and found inspiration for her stories of...

Preserving Our Past, Pioneering Our Future Challenge a Success

Preserving Our Past, Pioneering Our Future Challenge a Success

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The recent Preserving our Past, Pioneering our Future challenge campaign, mounted to provide additional educational and archival programs of the Willa Cather Foundation, has...

Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012

Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the world she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that affected her youth. Each...

Virtual Housewarming for the Cather Second Home

Virtual Housewarming for the Cather Second Home

Monday, July 11, 2011
In anticipation of the grand opening of the Cather Second Home, the Willa Cather Foundation is holding a virtual housewarming party in order to furnish the home with linens,...

Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

Monday, May 16, 2011
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...

25th Anniversary of the Norma Rose Walter Scholarship Program

25th Anniversary of the Norma Rose Walter Scholarship Program

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Since 1987, the Willa Cather Foundation has awarded 29 scholarships totaling more than $ 140,000 through the Norma Ross Walter Scholarship program. This year marks the 25th...

Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

Friday, February 25, 2011
On Friday, April 1, 2011 the Empire State Center for the Book inducted nine authors into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Willa Cather was among this prestigious...

56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

Monday, February 7, 2011
In May 1916, Willa Cather wrote to her friend Mabel Dodge Luhan that she just had the luck of sharing a train with a very well-known actor. When the train stopped in...

Friends Issue a Challenge to Preserve Our Past, Pioneer Our Future

Friends Issue a Challenge to Preserve Our Past, Pioneer Our Future

Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Two longtime contributors to the Foundation recently joined forces to issue a challenge to Willa Cather devotees. The Willa Cather: Preserving our Past, Pioneering our Future...

At Willa Cather's Tables: The Cather Foundation Cookbook

At Willa Cather's Tables: The Cather Foundation Cookbook

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Frozen plum pudding, anyone? Perhaps a French onion soup in which "there are nearly a thousand years of history"? Or some Swedish heirloom cookies? These and countless other...

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