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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… Upcoming Events Recent News Recent News The Big Read of My Ántonia Programs Offered to Communities & Organizations … swag that includes apparel, posters, prints, journals, notecards, and more.  Shop Online The Willa Cather Childhood …
Posted: 12/07/2022
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

Kids Build the Future! A Play about Place and Possibility

… thevalleychild@gmail.com. Meggan can also answer questions about the cost of the camp during the week as well as … is FREE to the public, but freewill donations are welcome. Thank you to our sponsors, Dennis and Sally Hansen, …
Posted: 06/10/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators

… Image Image Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators February 7, 2020 Visit Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie and …
Posted: 02/07/2020
Last Updated: 02/13/2020

Experience America’s Literary Legacy

… and education as a child, restored and open today with events and performances throughout the year. Our Special … 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 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/14/2025

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

…    –Lucy Gayheart Image Coming Spring 2026! The National Willa Cather Center’s historic Burlington Depot will soon welcome … over frontier "Night Express," Burlington Route," many others Railroad history/Red Cloud settlement history SUPPORT …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… A new permanent exhibit "We turned to leave the cave; Ántonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children … cave into the sunlight. It made me dizzy for a moment." - My Ántonia Image Located in rural Webster County, near … welcome reception. Commemorative exhibit bookmark.   Set of notecards featuring illustrations by Władysław T. Benda …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

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

… exhibit,  Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud , about the history of the community and its intersections … Pledges, and Securities Gifts of any and all sizes are welcome through charitable contributions made directly to … Brick is overlayed on the reconstructed third floor More About Hotel Garber This project aligns with our mission to …
Posted: 08/24/2023
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home | April 2024 Image Willa Cather … the link that follows. Banquet & Readers Theater Tickets To learn more about the recent restoration of the Willa Cather … Arts Council. His work can be found in  Rattle, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner , and in hundreds of other …
Posted: 05/13/2024
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… Bank As we mark the publication centenary of Willa Cather's A Lost Lady , a new permanent exhibit for the … Cloud through subjects that are both present and absent in Cather's fiction. The exhibit will explore topics that … and homesteading; banking and the Panic of 1893; and early preservation efforts led by the National Willa Cather …
Posted: 07/18/2023
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

Virtual Author Series: Joanna Biggs, Richard Scott Larson, and Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

… Oct 16, 2025 | 7 - 8pm CT Register Online Now Help us welcome three writers from our first Willa Cather Residency … penitentiary. Tensions emerge as the community learns more about this child and her connection to long-held local … senior editor at  Harper’s Magazine  and her book of essays about women writers,  A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women …
Posted: 08/14/2025
Last Updated: 08/15/2025

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