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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 …
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

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

December Soup Showdown

… on Sunday, December 7 from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Red Cloud Opera House and is open to the public with a free will donation. … money at the end of the event will receive a 2015 Red Cloud Opera House season pass, as well as a traveling trophy …
Posted: 12/29/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions

… Image Cather Family Christmas Decorations Annotations From the … Traditions December 10, 2025 In Webster County during Willa Cather’s childhood, Christmas traditions differed from … poorer residents of Red Cloud, held an annual supper and dance on Christmas night. The Red Cloud volunteer fire …
Posted: 12/10/2024
Last Updated: 12/17/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day

… Roll of Honor for Grosvenor P. Cather Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day November 5, 2024 On November 11, … day when the veterans of World War I were honored, and our collections are rich with museum and archival items that … as Veterans Day to honor veterans of all U.S. wars. You can learn more about the history of Armistice Day and Veteran's …
Posted: 11/04/2024
Last Updated: 11/05/2024

Red Cloud Opera House

… every word of those posters; the names of the plays and the nights on which each would be given. After we had decided … could prevail upon our parents. Would they let us go every night, or only on opening and closing nights?" "How good … a $275,000 challenge grant for the Opera House in December 2001, which the Foundation matched three-to-one and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/07/2024

The Potter Family

… Potter The Potter Family Five Potter brothers came to Red Cloud to settle the county. John Quincy Potter (1835–1923) came to Red Cloud in 1873 and along with his brother Jacob, began operating the Red Cloud … home in Iowa on August 31st in 1875 and were 5 weeks on the road. We had three covered wagons - two large lumber wagons …
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 … Silas Garber, their lives and legacy in Red Cloud, and the broader history of the community. In our organization’s early … to eat and plenty of water to wash it down with, but how long can a man subsist on bread and water, besides you say …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

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