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Harbor Stage Company presents The Bohemian

… Image Spring Conference Saturday, Jun 6, 2026 | 8 - 9:15pm CT Red Cloud … Join us for the finale of the 71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference! Adapted by Brenda Withers from Cather's short …
Posted: 04/27/2026
Last Updated: 04/28/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … and journals, Union College, Western Literature, Prairie Schooner, etc   Box 46 Cassettes and Recordings …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

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 …
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 … to a trip to Egypt in 2015, they made sure that the Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was included in their estate plans. … that springs to mind for them is a performance of the opera,  The Bohemian Girl , that was staged to help …
Posted: 07/13/2016
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Red Cloud Opera House

… the arrival of traveling productions such as  The Bohemian Girl  and  The Mikado . As Cather herself put it, "Only real …
Posted: 07/10/2014
Last Updated: 01/28/2025

Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda

Image Author Series Thursday, Oct 17, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT Register Online Now Join us for a discussion of Svoboda’s answer to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia ! Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as she searches for her father in the American West …
Posted: 08/14/2024
Last Updated: 09/23/2024

Historic Sites

… the arrival of traveling productions such as The Bohemian Girl  and The Mikado .  The Red Cloud Opera House hosts …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Red Cloud Opera House

… Image Red Cloud Opera House "When I go about among little Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House."  —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in 1885, the Red Cloud … people." "But I am sorry that the old Opera Houses in the prairie towns are dark, because they really did give a …
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 … Bergers returns once more to our Red Cloud Opera House gallery with the addition of a newly acquired …
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

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