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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… Welcome to the home of Willa Cather Willa Cather Willa Cather is one of the … Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for … of her writing. Begin by reading Cather's novels, short stories, and poetry; then delve into Cather criticism and …
Posted: 12/07/2022
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

Kids Build the Future! A Play about Place and Possibility

… thevalleychild@gmail.com. Meggan can also answer questions about the cost of the camp during the week as well as … is FREE to the public, but freewill donations are welcome. Thank you to our sponsors, Dennis and Sally Hansen, …
Posted: 06/10/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators

… Image Image Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators February 7, 2020 Visit … Cather knew them as a young girl—and would later write about. Enjoy an immersive and historic experience and let us …
Posted: 02/07/2020
Last Updated: 02/13/2020

Experience America’s Literary Legacy

… girl and throughout her life. Red Cloud is a rural town of 1,000 people far from any city or suburban sprawl. It is a … is her childhood bedroom and its original wallpaper in The Song of the Lark  or the Miner House that became the Harling home in My …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 09/16/2025

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… the settlement of the West. About the Depot The original two-story section of the depot, constructed in 1897, is the … allowed for additional exhibit space, and the site is now accessible thanks to the addition of paved walkways and … project, in which we have tried to foreground two fundamental questions: Why is this site/object/person …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 09/08/2025

Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… As we mark the publication centenary of Willa Cather's A Lost Lady , a new permanent exhibit for the Farmers and Merchants … life and as portrayed as Captain and Mrs. Forrester in A Lost Lady ; town-making and homesteading; banking and the …
Posted: 07/18/2023
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

Virtual Author Series: Joanna Biggs, Richard Scott Larson, and Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

… Oct 16, 2025 | 7 - 8pm CT Register Online Now Help us welcome three writers from our first Willa Cather Residency … penitentiary. Tensions emerge as the community learns more about this child and her connection to long-held local … senior editor at  Harper’s Magazine  and her book of essays about women writers,  A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women …
Posted: 08/14/2025
Last Updated: 08/15/2025

Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

… Image Willa Cather Memorial Prairie The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is … art, history, and culture has been lost to much of the world. Of the millions of acres of grasslands that once … upland plovers, wild turkeys, bobolinks and other New World blackbird species, vesper sparrows and their many …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 06/29/2025

We're Still Here: American Indian Spirit in the Unmade Place

… by Steve Tamayo, Anne Steinhoff, and Paul High Horse Art Gallery Thursday, May 15 - Saturday, Aug 2, 2025 | All day … We're Still Here: American Indian Spirit in the Unmade Place . These Native American artists have brought together …
Posted: 01/22/2025
Last Updated: 06/17/2025

Willa Cather Statue Unveiling & Reception

… Image Littleton Alston with his statue of Willa Cather Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 5, 2025 | 6 - 7pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … addition of Littleton Alston‘s larger-than-life statue of Willa Cather to the collection. This piece is Alston's …
Posted: 06/05/2025
Last Updated: 06/05/2025

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