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… research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red Cloud’s … Cather loved about Webster County. Contribute to this Campaign The Willa Cather Birthplace Support for Future Preservation Willa Cather's birth home, a rural …
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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature
… is her childhood bedroom and its original wallpaper in The Song of the Lark or the Miner House that became the Harling home in My … around you. Listen only to the sound of the wind and the larks or the gentle murmur of cattle — or just the sound of …
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Through Darkness to Light
… with a Tunnel Leading to Another Conductor’s House, 2013 Photographs Along the Underground Railroad Art Gallery … family stories from Virginia. Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad features the work … to the northern border with Canada, this series of photographs by Michna-Bales helps us imagine how the long …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains
… Events Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 | 1 - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … Nebraska Arts Council, and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. About the Speaker Bill Hayes grew up in the historic town of …
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The Passing Show: What Makes a House a Home
… Conference Saturday, Jun 7, 2025 | 1 - 2:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States LEARN MORE about the 70th Annual Spring Conference Join us for an … culture, literature, and labor, he has published in The Willa Cather Review , The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review , …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Photographers
… 6, 2025 Think about all the things you know about Willa Cather and Red Cloud. Can you call to mind her teenaged … read and study her today are indebted to the many friends, family members, and townspeople who shared photographs of … the Red Cloud Chief wrote, "Red Cloud wants a Photograph Gallery," and in 1875, amusement operator Weber answered the …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
… it do, Or do without. This week, the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery opens the traveling exhibit Thrift Style , a … and entertainment for both children and adults. Willa Cather created several of these using advertising cards and … of primary importance on the frontier. Cather wrote to her family, “The new Swedish edition of “O Pioneers” is one of …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Dustin Mater
… from 2000 to 2004. After meeting his wife, Mater moved his family to Dallas, where he worked as a freelance illustrator … Fame: An Exhibition of Native Pop Art at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House Gallery. At the show, he displayed his ledger drawings and a …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
… in this county. Thank you to everyone at the National Willa Cather Center for allowing me to show my art in the town … us a bit about your relationship to Webster County and your family history here. I was born in Red Cloud, delivered by … priced. Art purchases from the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery benefit the artist and help support our mission to …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa … of her childhood in Red Cloud, she returned often to visit family and friends. She once wrote, "I always return to … once performed—has a changing variety of performances and gallery shows throughout the year. Watch our Event pages for …
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