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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 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/07/2024

Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding

… “a kind of freemasonry,” as Willa Cather called it in My Ántonia . Their stories enhanced our understanding of … Ludlow Tennant, 1958: It was some eighty years ago that my grandfather, William Ludlow, a retired minister, …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Finding Aids

…   Book The Song of the Lark Willa Cather  1988   Book The Troll Garden Willa Cather 1961   Book Friend of My Springtime …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Cather Legacy Society

… takes into account the people, places, and causes you care about. Joining the Cather Legacy Society is an excellent way … further our mission. A planned gift to the Willa Cather Foundation can provide you or your estate with significant … insurance policy. No matter how you choose to give, our staff can help guide you through the process as you fulfill …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

Willa Cather Residency for Writers

… eventually artists of all media—to reside and create in Red Cloud, Nebraska for two weeks. A new initiative of the … National Willa Cather Center, the program reflects the life-long reverence that world-renowned author Willa Cather had … the communities in half of her novels. In a nod to the long road that Willa Cather traveled before she became free to …
Posted: 10/06/2023
Last Updated: 06/18/2025

49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Arigon Starr

… pursue a music career. While playing in Los Angeles coffeehouses, Starr released her first independent CD, “Meet the … #8” along with several other comic pieces at the Red Cloud Opera House’s 49 Minutes of Fame exhibit. Since creating … of Native Pop Art  which was installed at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery from November 5-December 14, 2021 • …
Posted: 12/18/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2024

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 …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … AUTHOR: Willa Cather  TITLE: Great Forking Trees (from a 1921 Cather Interview in the Lincoln State Journal) p. 2  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather enthusiasts, the Andersons have traveled to various settings around North America that appear in Willa Cather’s novels. They recently spent time in Red Cloud where … at a beautiful October sunset on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. You recently visited Red Cloud. What brought you …
Posted: 12/05/2019
Last Updated: 12/30/2019

Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… dozens of blossoms. They made a golden ribbon across the prairie. Occasionally one of the horses would tear off with … using the colorful blooms as trail markers came to be. Cather directly referenced the trail on the Laramie Plain of … seem to me the roads to freedom." When you visit Willa Cather's Red Cloud or the  Willa Cather Memorial Prairie …
Posted: 08/27/2019
Last Updated: 08/29/2019

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