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… Tour Options Red Cloud Opera House Upcoming Events & Rental Info Built in 1885, the Red Cloud Opera House transports …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

An Immersive Willa Cather Experience

Image Walking on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home was reopened in December 2023 after a 16-month restoraton. Image The Red Cloud Opera House and National Willa Cather Center in downtown Red Cloud. Image The Pavelka …
Posted: 01/22/2025
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

School Field Trips

… students will be able to: Visit all of the sites on the guided town tour , including the Willa Cather Childhood … education staff. Not sure how to get started planning your visit? Contact Rachel Olsen, director of education and … help you schedule your field trip. Book a Field Trip …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/14/2025

Burlington Depot

… (and several grain and livestock trains) passed through town daily, making the Red Cloud Depot a busy and exciting … story of the Burlington in Red Cloud!   Watch our virtual tour of the 2021 restoration and preservation work at this important historic site in Red Cloud! 7-Building Tour 3-Building Tour Individual Build Tour Self Guided Tour …
Posted: 07/18/2014
Last Updated: 02/26/2025

NWCC Launches NEH-Funded Digital Projects

… a mobile and web-app and a digital collections search tool, will help the NWCC to engage with students and … while onsite in Red Cloud. "Creation of digital education tools has been on our list of goals for years," said Tracy … at the National Willa Cather Center. Creating such tools, she notes, is a resource-intensive process but an …
Posted: 02/16/2021
Last Updated: 02/21/2025

NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… Offered to Communities and Organizations September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by … what we have lost and what we have gained, what the author knew and what she didn’t know that she knew, but that …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/29/2024

"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed

… of its historic and arts offerings, while learning about Cather’s time in New Mexico. We’ll discuss and share from … who had his own vision of the counterculture lifestyle. “Willa Cather and the Counterculture” explores Cather’s … David Harrell. In Vol. 33 of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review. pp. 4-8.  …
Posted: 04/03/2020
Last Updated: 10/16/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … restoration in more than fifty years.  A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood … The exterior was repainted in the familiar brown-toned historic palette, reconfirmed after a careful paint …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Historic Sites

… author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family moved in. … 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's … Carrie, Mary, and Irene Miner. The Miners inspired the Harling family of My Ántonia . Cather dedicated My Ántonia …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

The Foster Family

… home on Red Cloud's Elm Street; she sometimes worked out of town as a nurse-companion. John worked as a laborer, a … By all accounts, the family was beloved among Red Cloud's townspeople. Early photos show that black and white children … as a civil rights leader. In 1910, he and his band began touring with the Omaha Chamber of Commerce as they traveled …
Posted: 02/25/2024
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

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