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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
… Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, sixteen … engaged in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud
… Image Cather's Thanksgiving postcard to her niece, 1909 … of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," … and editor of a popular ladies’ magazine. In addition to writing “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” Hale is perhaps best known …
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The Red Cloud Opera House is on the Nebraska Passport Program
… Image The Red Cloud Opera House is on the Nebraska Passport Program April … Travelers will have from May 1 through September 30 to visit the attractions and get their stamps. The summer … and its people—from the things we make to our unique history,” said Passport Program Coordinator Amanda Barker. …
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Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest
… Park in Richmond, Virginia, and later joined the staff of Historic Hanover Tavern and taught at … believed motivated his father to remember the Willa Cather Foundation in his estate plan, Alex Kyle said, “My dad was … to celebrating literature and its way of educating people about early life on the Great Plains.” With his bequest, Dr. …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder
… Saturday, Oct 24, 2026 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … Online Now "The type of writer we have been talking about has a brain like Limbo, full of ghosts, for which he … characters and evocative descriptions of the Nebraska prairie they inhabit. Critics characterize her work as …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House
… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, … six cozy guest rooms and two-and-a-half baths. Book Now About the Guest House Image The Cather Second Home is a … rug evoke what Alexandra Bergson may have had in her own prairie farmhouse. Cozy and low-ceiled, as Willa Cather …
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National Willa Cather Center
… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … sunset at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Explore scenic country roads on a Cather "Country Tour" of outlying … Home Guest House Browse the bookstore and gift shop Guided Tours Hours of Operation American Bittersweet The Life & …
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Remembering Jennifer Hein
… recalled that Jennifer Hein’s belief in the work of the Cather Center made it an easy decision to make it part of … Furthers Legacy of Education April 2, 2026 The National Willa Cather Center is honored to recognize the legacy of … that remain essential to understanding the life and writing of Willa Cather. Through her generosity, Jennifer …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains
… please contact Director of Education and Engagement Rachel Olsen at rolsen@willacather.org . Humanities Nebraska (HN) provides …
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All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture
… –Lucy Gayheart Image Coming Spring 2026! The National Willa Cather Center’s historic Burlington Depot will soon welcome … Why is this site/object/person important to the life and writing of Willa Cather? We hope this two-fold interpretive …
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