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Turn the Page Literary Tour

… Image Turn the Page Literary Tour July 3, 2013 The Willa Cather State Historic Site/Red Cloud Opera House is one of … for the 2013 program are organized into 10 special-interest tours: Hit the Hot Spots, Meet the Locals, Picture the … Historic Site include: Guided tours of Cather's childhood home and other historic sites related to her life and …
Posted: 09/11/2014
Last Updated: 09/11/2014

Hwy 281 and Hwy 136 Construction Routes

… Red Cloud project gets underway April 6, 2026. To make your visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center a little easier, we wanted to share NDOT's … in downtown Red Cloud will have alternate routes For Our Lodging Guests Our historic lodging properties are open and …
Posted: 04/03/2026
Last Updated: 04/06/2026

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… Quiet, Cozy, Just like Home Whether you are planning a book group excursion, family vacation, or a quiet writer’s … the rooms of her parents and siblings. At the conclusion of your stay, you will be inspired and leave refreshed — just … ADAPTIVE REUSE PROJECT Willa Cather Childhood Home & Guided Tours Experience An Author's World Willa Cather’s …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Visit

… 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 … her high school graduation oration in 1890. Learn More About the Opera House …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

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 … too." The app allows users to explore the Cather Childhood Home, the  American Bittersweet  exhibit, or take the …
Posted: 02/16/2021
Last Updated: 02/21/2025

Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… 2025 January 6, 2025, marks another important centenary in Willa Cather's career: the opening of the feature film adaptation … of Czechoslovakia, that she had recently taken "the living 'Antonia' and six of her many fine children to the …
Posted: 01/06/2025
Last Updated: 01/21/2025

Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… Image The Burlington Depot is on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud … Carrie, when I confide to you that I would rather go home to Red Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa …
Posted: 11/13/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2024

Historic Sites

… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront of of … a diverse schedule that includes theater, music, lectures, gallery exhibits, and much more. The Opera House was donated …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land is always here...”  —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023

Press Room

… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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