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. We encourage you to visit us regularly for the latest 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.
![News image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090118135022im_/http://www.willacather.org/images/stories/antique-camera.gif) 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 |
![News image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090118135022im_/http://www.willacather.org/images/stories/a.jpg) 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 |
![News image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090118135022im_/http://willacather.org/images/stories/articles/wcather.jpg) The heart and soul of the Cather Foundation can be found in the annual Willa Cather Spring Conference at the Cather Historic Site in Red Cloud. It is here that entrenched traditions of the Foundation are reinforced: kolache and coffee on Saturday morning, the service at Grace Episcopal Chu... Read More |
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