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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to … National Willa Cather Center and historic Red Cloud Opera House. Interested in planning a trip? Browse our website, and the links below, or contact Nick Powers, Visitor Services Coordinator, at …
Posted: 11/13/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2024

Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud

… Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, sixteen Road … reviews: “This was a delightful combination of literature, history, and staying at the Cather Second Home in Red Cloud …
Posted: 10/23/2019
Last Updated: 11/21/2019

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… . . . But our great National feast day was originated by a private individual, and a woman at that. Above all her other … 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 … personal artifacts or dig into Red Cloud history in a new way!     …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the … come and go, but the land is always here...”  —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the prairie settings and …
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

Visit

… a not-for-profit organization created in 1955 that owns and operates the National Willa Cather Center and the nation's … and numerous short stories. Tour Options Red Cloud Opera House Upcoming Events & Rental Info Built in 1885, the Red Cloud Opera …
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

Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

Welcome to the home of Willa Cather Willa Cather Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. Seen as a regional writer for decades after her passing in 1947, critics have increasingly identified …
Posted: 12/07/2022
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in … will begin Thursday, June 5th with a plenary talk about Cather and Mesa Verde by interpretive ranger Ann … as well as the return of the popular star-gazing on the prairie program that evening. Pulitzer Prize winner Jane …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

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