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Community Events: Free and Open to the Public!

… of our historic sites to see what we've been up to in the past year with some of our site restorations. We're excited … to add new interpretation and exhibits. Our Red Cloud Opera House Gallery and National Willa Cather Center Bookstore …
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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators

… foremost citizen and author of O Pioneers! , My Ántonia & Death Comes for the Archbishop   ❧ Willa Cather once said, “I always return to …
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Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall

… tours for schools or groups who want to learn more about Willa Cather and the town that inspired so much of her writing. … , as well as take in the latest art exhibit in our gallery. Rachel Olsen, our Education Specialist, schedules …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography

… who settled there. On my return, a colleague lent me Death Comes for the Archbishop and I was immediately struck by how Willa …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural … It adds another dimension to her stories when you can walk around the setting of that story, whether it’s Hanover, … after that, I’ll move on to the famed My Ántonia . I try to take my reading out to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie as …
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2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success

… Success July 24, 2015 2015 was a very special year for the Willa Cather Foundation’s annual Spring Conference. As we … by a number of works of art, mentioning many of them in her writing. Of these, My Ántonia’s story of Pavel and Peter, …
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WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark

… Image WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark July 14, 2015 The Willa Cather Foundation is celebrating the …
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Jorn Olsen Photography

… Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Monday, Mar 16, 2015 | 12am - Sunday, May 3, 2015 | … River to the vivid colors of an autumn sunset over the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, Olsen creates magnificent images of …
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View "Portraits of the Prairie" Exhibit

… the Prairie" Exhibit 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 … The Land That Inspired Willa Cather Now Showing in the Gallery Through December 15 …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… Image Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather … the Great Plains region. Cather's close readers have long noted her sharp presentation of herself as prairie poet with … Cather's Poems, now in preparation, will be among the last volumes published in that series by the University of …
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