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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… and culture merge with the pleasures of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit  Red Cloud  is to experience a town and entire landscapes, largely unchanged, as … sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the rolling …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … homestead claims near a site that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884  — Willa Cather attends a …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections

… of materials pulled from the collections of the National Willa Cather Center and the Webster County Historical … were central to our understanding of early Red Cloud and Willa Cather’s adolescence here, as well as her use of … in letters to her Red Cloud acquaintances, she wrote about events like those depicted in the exhibit—business openings …
Posted: 02/25/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Volunteer Appreciation & Recruitment Cocktail Hour

… ropes and take part in a special viewing of our new exhibit Crossroads: Change in Rural America , as well as enjoy free … award. Sign up to volunteer for any of the 2022 opera house events and get a free pass to the show of your choice! We'll …
Posted: 02/08/2022
Last Updated: 02/22/2022

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