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4th Annual December Night Soup Showdown

… chefs dust off their favorite recipe for the 4th annual December Night Soup Showdown. The event is open to the public from …
Posted: 11/21/2017
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

3rd Annual December Night Soup Showdown

… Image Opera House Sunday, Dec 4, 2016 | 5 - 7pm Red Cloud Opera … will benefit the arts and educational programs of the Willa Cather Foundation and the Auld Public Library. Entry forms for the Soup Showdown are available now at the Willa Cather Foundation, Auld Public Library, or download a PDF …
Posted: 11/15/2016
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

2nd Annual December Night Soup Showdown

… off your culinary skills! All you have to do to enter the December Night Soup Showdown is fill out an entry form by November 30 and provide a large roaster of your favorite soup on December 6. Tables will be provided in the Opera House. …
Posted: 11/13/2015
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

December Soup Showdown

… Image December Soup Showdown November 24, 2014 CHEFS NEEDED FOR DECEMBER NIGHT SOUP SHOWDOWN (Red Cloud, NE) — Do you have a …
Posted: 12/29/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions

… From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions December 10, 2025 In Webster County during Willa Cather’s … of Red Cloud, held an annual supper and dance on Christmas night. The Red Cloud volunteer fire department also gave a … forget and cease to love, but her childhood is eternal. (December 17, 1893) Later, this memory would fuel the ending …
Posted: 12/10/2024
Last Updated: 12/17/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day

… He knew he was not the only farmer boy who wished himself tonight beside the Marne. . . . Lying still and thinking fast, … army. One's manners wouldn't matter on the Marne tonight, the night of the eighth of September, 1914. There was … the poem was written in May 1915 and published in Punch in December 1915, the poem took on a life of its own as one of …
Posted: 11/04/2024
Last Updated: 11/05/2024

Red Cloud Opera House

… can give us that feeling of living along with them, of participating in their existence." It was in the Red Cloud …  and is home to the Willa Cather Foundation offices, art gallery and bookstore.  Willa Cather Speaking About The …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/07/2024

The Potter Family

… from New York to Nebraska to live with and work for area farmers.  Charles R. Potter (1840–1931) was born in the … R. Potter, was 21 when they were married, having left his home in Owego, N.Y. the year before to come to Illinois where he had relatives. He and his father never agreed very well, so he left home and came west, as …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

5th Annual Soup Showdown Rescheduled

Image Opera House Sunday, Jan 13, 2019 | 5 - 7pm Red Cloud Opera House 413 North Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The Red Cloud Opera House will be brimming with enticing aromas as local chefs dust off their favorite recipe for the 5th annual …
Posted: 11/07/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding

… Image Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding December 16, 2022 As we conclude restoration work on the … the house but still close to the creek. . . . The last night of [brick] firing was a gala event. Chicken was rolled …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

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