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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 …
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3rd Annual December Night Soup Showdown
… chefs dust off their favorite recipe for the 3rd annual December Night Soup Showdown. The event is open to the public from … food critic’s choice and presentation. Proceeds from the December Night Soup Showdown will benefit the arts and …
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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. …
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December Soup Showdown
… Image December Soup Showdown November 24, 2014 CHEFS NEEDED FOR DECEMBER NIGHT SOUP SHOWDOWN (Red Cloud, NE) — Do you have a …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions
… December 10, 2025 In Webster County during Willa Cather’s childhood, Christmas traditions differed from our modern … of the county’s citizens. While Cather was a child, many holiday celebrations were community-focused. The county’s … along with ideas for decorating them with bells, Christmas cards, toys, and fruit.) In Red Cloud and Guide Rock, clubs …
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Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
… day when the veterans of World War I were honored, and our collections are rich with museum and archival items that … of Ladies' Home Journal is just one such example from our collections. In One of Ours, Cather wrote: "It was curious . … as Veterans Day to honor veterans of all U.S. wars. You can learn more about the history of Armistice Day and Veteran's …
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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 … to set the mood, scene, and tone of the 1890s, when Willa Cather and her friends eagerly anticipated the arrival of …
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The Potter Family
… a camp fire. . . . With so many emigrants coming to a new country, it made the housing a very serious problem and as … settlement surrounded by dykes to hold back the waters of Lake Michigan. In 1860 he rode forty miles in a jolting … years. He was the oldest of the brothers who came to this country. It is possible there was one older than he who 'did …
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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 …
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Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… conclude restoration work on the Farmers and Merchants Bank building, we now undertake the work of reinterpreting the … The bank has always been a part of our guided town tour, but the renovated spaces will soon allow our guests to … family still lived in the stockade. The school began June 3rd, 1871. She was paid $12.00 a month. …
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