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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… You can, too—in any season or time of year, whether for the first time or on a return trip. We offer a variety of guided … classic novel My Ántonia , published in 1918, was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts …
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 … 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

… feast day was originated by a private individual, and a woman at that. Above all her other interests and duties, the … people, how invaluable would be its associations. That man of mighty proclamations first proclaimed "Thanksgiving … with her family. In a letter to Elizabeth Wolfe Huffmann, on June 13, 1945, Cather recalled her last holidays in …
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 … 281 near Lebanon, Kansas). If you're searching for the best location for a spectacular Nebraska sunset, sunrise, or even … and includes settings from Willa Cather's novels and childhood: homesteads and related cemeteries, churches, the …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023

Soundstitching: Sites and Sounds of Willa Cather's World

… and a Visual Art Instructor in the fine arts program at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, and resides in Sarasota. …
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 … watch the sunrise and sunset at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Explore scenic country roads on a Cather "Country … stories of the people who passed through the station. Learn More …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/14/2026

Visit

… hometown. Explore exhibits and collections, or visit historic sites like the Willa Cather Childhood Home for an intimate … the nation's largest collection of nationally-designated historic sites dedicated to an American author. Hours & …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

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

… Island, New Brunswick Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift September 6, 2024 … Simons, died in 1972 at 102 years old and is buried in her hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Kohout grew up in Texas, … her mother’s family in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has vivid memories of time spent with Mama Simons, who had moved from …
Posted: 09/10/2024
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation

Image Loren Johnson Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation April 10, 2025 Ask Loren Johnson’s former students what he was like as a teacher and they won’t mince words—he was tough. But they also describe in the same breath …
Posted: 04/10/2025
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… and institutional affiliation, should be submitted to Rachel Olsen, Director of Education and Engagement, via the  2025 … their scheduled presentation. Questions may be directed to Rachel Olsen or Todd Richardson, Academic Advisor of the …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

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