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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud

… Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, sixteen Road Scholars spent an immersive five days engaged in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered …
Posted: 10/23/2019
Last Updated: 11/21/2019

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… is the season of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather,  "Nebraska: The End of the First … last Thanksgiving and Christmas that you and I had in the old house in Red Cloud. What a happy time that was for me! I shall always think of the old house just as it was then—exactly as Father and Mother …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

The Red Cloud Opera House is on the Nebraska Passport Program

… Image The Red Cloud Opera House is on the Nebraska Passport Program April 15, … Apple App Store or the Google Play App Store. The Red Cloud Opera House is proud to announce that we are a part of the … or to get your Passport you can stop by The Willa Cather Foundation, (402) 746-2653. You can also go to the …
Posted: 04/15/2016
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest

… Image Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest September 27, 2022 There … Kyle. The news came from Dr. Kyle’s son, Alex Kyle, who shared that he had escorted his father to Nebraska in 2019 for … visiting south-central Nebraska, the Kyles ventured to Red Cloud to see the National Willa Cather Center, participate …
Posted: 09/27/2022
Last Updated: 12/20/2022

Remembering Jennifer Hein

… Image Julie Walstra (left) recalled that Jennifer Hein’s belief in the work of the Cather Center made it an easy …
Posted: 04/02/2026
Last Updated: 04/02/2026

Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 | 1 - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … found refuge on their journey north to freedom. Willa Cather's final novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) … Programming at the National Willa Cather Center's Red Cloud Opera House Gallery is made possible with the support of the …
Posted: 01/28/2026
Last Updated: 02/10/2026

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture A new permanent exhibit for the Burlington Depot “The station platform was soon full of restless young people, glancing up the track, looking at their watches, as if they could not endure their own town a …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Group and Motorcoach Tours

… Group and Motorcoach Tours Discover the World of Willa Cather on the American Prairie Embark on a literary … hours, a half day, or all day—let us arrange the perfect immersive tour itinerary within your timeframe! To speak … please call 402-746-2653. What Your Group Will Experience Visit the fully-restored  Willa Cather Childhood home and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… It’s easy to connect the archives to local history and, in our case, literary history, but the very idea of a … is foundational to American ideas—after being ushered in by our revolutionary partners, the French. As we start to think … and art collections, create exhibitions, and lead the team that maintains the historic sites. On any given day, I …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, … cities in Europe where I used to love to go. " —Willa Cather, in a letter to childhood friend, Carrie Miner … rug evoke what Alexandra Bergson may have had in her own prairie farmhouse. Cozy and low-ceiled, as Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

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