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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… two buildings share an elevator to provide visitors with access to a new permanent exhibit,  Making a Place: A Long …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

The Potter-Wright Building's New Life as Hotel Garber

… and downtown revitalization goals. Conjoined to our Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the two buildings share an … Creative Hub at Hotel Garber. Memorable guest rooms will spotlight artwork featuring historic Red Cloud, while the …
Posted: 08/24/2023
Last Updated: 04/08/2025

Historic Sites

… town. A special train whistle alerted parishioners that Mass was about to begin. Anna Sadilek and John Pavelka, the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… explore topics that include Pawnee culture; the lives of Silas and Lyra Garber—in life and as portrayed as Captain and Mrs. …
Posted: 07/18/2023
Last Updated: 04/02/2024

Our Campaign for the Future

… needs, and the addition of new exhibits for the Farmers & Merchants Bank , Burlington Depot, and Pavelka Farmstead. … by 9/30/23. Read More About the New Permanent Exhibit Spotlight on the Farmers & Merchants Bank Restoration Pledge …
Posted: 04/06/2023
Last Updated: 03/08/2024

Making a Place Exhibit Opening!

… in Cather's fiction. The exhibit includes Pawnee culture; Silas and Lyra Garber—in life and as portrayed as Captain and Mrs. …
Posted: 01/29/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … selling farm loans and insurance downtown and rents a story-and-a-half frame house on 3rd and Cedar Streets. Built … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding

… of the community. In our organization’s early days, we were known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, and Mildred … enhanced our understanding of Cather’s own family story, as well as the stories she herself published. These Webster … was around 4 o’clock and the next morning there was not a leaf nor kernel of corn left . . . . They ate every leaf off …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!

… The prominent Romanesque Revival style bank was built by Silas Garber and his partners in 1889 and was the first home of … Nebraska’s fourth governor, Garber and his socialite wife Lyra were friends of Cather’s and provided her the …
Posted: 04/18/2023
Last Updated: 05/02/2023

Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… is identifying processes that we can adopt to make our work loads easier to manage, as well as developing more … cooking. If I can swing a book or two outside of my reading load for work, so much the better. …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023

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