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Home for the Holidays

… Image Cather Family Christmas Decorations A Cather Christmas Tour … 20, 2025 | 1 - 2pm Saturday, Dec 20, 2025 | 2 - 3pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 425 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 …
Posted: 11/07/2025
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Lauren Anderson – NEW DATE!

… for the original performance are transferable to the new date. Lauren Anderson returns to Nebraska, bringing her …
Posted: 12/16/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… Image Cather's Thanksgiving postcard to her niece, 1909 … of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather,  "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,"   … and through a general consent. . . . But our great National feast day was originated by a private individual, …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… they could not endure their own town a moment longer.”     –Lucy Gayheart Image Coming Spring 2026! The National Willa Cather … of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an early play, “The West Bound Train.” …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Group and Motorcoach Tours

… Group and Motorcoach Tours Discover the World of Willa Cather on the American … in the quiet rural town of Red Cloud, Nebraska—childhood home of writer Willa Cather. Alongside the Red Cloud Opera …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity

… Grant Opportunity 2025 Year-End Campaign The Mammel Foundation has generously offered $50,000 of challenge money … your gift must be received by December 31. Thank you! DONATE This year the Cather Center proudly completed a … most enduring works of American literature.  Thanks to your support, we provided more than one thousand free copies of …
Posted: 11/06/2024
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

Visit

… 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

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article … frequently that I keep a hard copy at home and at work. Did Willa Cather say, "Anybody can love the mountains, but it's …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk

… the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center for analysis in 2023. Object stabilization and preservation will cost $9,500.  … Burdens and Miners in  My Ántonia , ​and Dr. Archie in  The Song of the Lark . Cather writes of the differences between immigrants …
Posted: 08/26/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

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

… market feasibility study concluded that the market could support an additional 30-room lodging establishment. … Fund (an affiliated fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation). More than $7 million in donations, grants, and … wall, and pledges are payable over a five-year period. DONATE NOW CASE FOR SUPPORT Image What's in a Name? The …
Posted: 08/24/2023
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

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