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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season! Explore • Learn • Shop • Stay "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … grant funding, we have traveling exhibits, programs, and educational resources available through June 30, 2025. Participate in …
Posted: 11/13/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2024

Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud

… in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered through … Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. They also experienced our “ Country Tour ” on board a vintage trolley that successfully … Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud! Our town and country tours, Willa Cather Memorial Prairie visit, and unique …
Posted: 10/23/2019
Last Updated: 11/21/2019

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… 1896, after leaving for her first job as editor of The Home Monthly in Pittsburgh , Willa Cather wrote “The Origin … 13, 1945, Cather recalled her last holidays in the Cather home: “ I often remember the last Thanksgiving and Christmas … a little house in Canada, and I have lived in a good many places in the world, but no one place is as dear to me as …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… lodging through Airbnb at the  Cather Second Home Guest House —a Cather family home—and the  Villa Willa , a modern … programs, and exhibits — held at the Red Cloud Opera House and National Willa Cather Center — to plan around your …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023

Soundstitching: Sites and Sounds of Willa Cather's World

… Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Tuesday, May 3, 2022 | 12am - Saturday, Jun 11, 2022 … States In this exhibition, artist Cassia Kite's distinctive Soundstitching process allows visitors to experience Willa Cather's world in a whole new way. Soundstitching: Sites and Sounds of Willa Cather's World transforms the …
Posted: 03/15/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … Explore a new exhibit,  American Bittersweet: The Life & Writing of Willa Cather View a museum film narrated by Ken …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/07/2026

Visit

… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National … an American author. Hours & Directions Hours & Directions Lodging Options Lodging Options Cather Prairie Cather …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift

… Image Kohout at Willa Cather's grave in Jaffrey, NH Image Viewing Cather's … in 1972 at 102 years old and is buried in her hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Kohout grew up in Texas, but each summer she visited her mother’s family in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has …
Posted: 09/10/2024
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Loren Johnson Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation April 10, 2025 Ask Loren Johnson’s former … kindness and compassion. In fact, Johnson cared so deeply about others that he rarely shared much about his own life …
Posted: 04/10/2025
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in … Featured Speaker Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres , which was awarded the … Pulitzer Prize, The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck , Early Warning , and Golden Age , Perestroika in Paris , and, …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

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