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… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National Willa Cather Center is an award-winning museum in the heart …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

Childhood Home Tour

… Image Image Image Childhood Home Tour Understand Cather's Youth The Willa Cather Childhood Home is a short walk or drive from the National …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

NWCC Launches NEH-Funded Digital Projects

… Digital Projects February 16, 2021 The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to announce two new digital … apps  on the Cuseum platform. Designed to enhance guided tours for Red Cloud visitors or to stand alone as an … the  American Bittersweet  exhibit, or take the self-guided town tour, as well as listening to audio clips and viewing …
Posted: 02/16/2021
Last Updated: 02/21/2025

Guided Seasonal Tour

… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was … Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable …
Posted: 08/23/2024
Last Updated: 01/03/2025

NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… to Communities and Organizations September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by … We Live" theme. The novel is set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of … Willa Cather Spring Conference My Ántonia -themed guided tours A special event at the recently restored Pavelka …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/29/2024

Guided Three Building Downtown Tour

… Image Guided Three Building Downtown Tour Driving or Walking Tour This guided tour option includes the restored Willa Cather Childhood Home, the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and … and plan to follow a tour guide from site to site. Tours last approximately 60 minutes. Book This Tour Adults: …
Posted: 05/21/2024
Last Updated: 07/01/2024

Historic Sites

… hardware store for decades. “When I go about among little Nebraska towns . . . the thing I miss most is the opera … of the property was finally decided years later by the Nebraska Supreme Court. The award-winning restoration of the … twentieth century farmstead of an immigrant farm family in Nebraska. “We turned to leave the cave; Antonia and I went …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong

… , made a low key visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center last week. Wong and Giamatti, who joined … for a weekend of events at Omaha's Film Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather historic sites, the Willa Cather … his stay, "and to get so close to the lovely folks in the town." Giamatti is best known for his movie roles …
Posted: 08/29/2019
Last Updated: 03/08/2024

Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones

… stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … gallery and exhibit areas and space for historic site tours that will highlight connections to Red Cloud’s history … Garber Hotel Garber will be a 26-room boutique hotel in downtown Red Cloud. The facility will help achieve tourism …
Posted: 07/21/2022
Last Updated: 08/24/2023

Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!

… a graduate student in the humanities at the University of Nebraska (UNL, UNK, or UNO). It is funded through a collaboration between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, Nebraska, is a student at the University of Nebraska Omaha …
Posted: 07/07/2023
Last Updated: 07/07/2023

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