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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest … available for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by … Miner Sherwood. Microfilm roll of Day by Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847 . Language: The material is in English Access …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Visit

… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National Willa Cather Center is an award-winning museum in the heart … her high school graduation oration in 1890. Learn More About the Opera House …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… Image A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society July 13, 2016 “ I feel blessed that … says Wade. “Honestly, it taught me the importance of supporting in a financial way the things you care about.” … they’ve enjoyed, whether it’s the historic buildings, the prairie, or the Opera House. “It has brought a lot to us as …
Posted: 07/13/2016
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Red Cloud Opera House

… Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House." —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in 1885, the Red Cloud … in time to set the mood, scene, and tone of the 1890s, when Willa Cather and her friends eagerly anticipated the arrival …
Posted: 07/10/2014
Last Updated: 01/28/2025

Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda

… a discussion of Svoboda’s answer to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia ! Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as …
Posted: 08/14/2024
Last Updated: 09/23/2024

Historic Sites

… John Pavelka, the couple who inspired characters in both  My Ántonia  and "Neighbour Rosicky," were married in this … and Irene Miner. The Miners inspired the Harling family of My Ántonia . Cather dedicated My Ántonia  “to Carrie and … farm family in Nebraska. “We turned to leave the cave; Antonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Red Cloud Opera House

… which were the most necessary to us, there was always the question of how far we could prevail upon our parents. Would … Renovation Image The Red Cloud Opera House, which closed its doors as such by 1920, was owned by the Morhart family … visitors' center, bookstore, art gallery and exhibition space, and the Willa Cather Foundation offices. The exterior …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/07/2024

From the Permanent Collection: John Blake Bergers

Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Saturday, Jan 22, 2022 | 12am - Saturday, Feb 12, 2022 | 12am Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 413 N Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The work of John Blake Bergers returns once more to our Red Cloud …
Posted: 01/14/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

My Ántonia by Illusion Theater

… upon his return to Nebraska to see Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant girl who shaped his understanding of people and life. …
Posted: 12/12/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of … Cather's Early Works p. 2  TITLE: A Note on The White Bear Stories  AUTHOR: Mildred R. Bennett p. 4  … 45 Cather as "Singing Novelist", Looking Toward a Scholarly Collected Poems p. 46 Call for Papers: Food, Drink, and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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