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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… Faulkner and Wharton. Life & Literature Recent News Shop Books & Gifts The Willa Cather Foundation is a … Students & Teachers Upcoming Events Upcoming Events Recent News Recent News Community Reading Programs Reading Willa …
Posted: 12/07/2022
Last Updated: 01/29/2026

Group and Motorcoach Tours

… Willa Cather Center is located in the quiet rural town of Red Cloud, Nebraska—childhood home of writer Willa Cather. … lunch served in our beautiful Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery — or a picnic on the prairie! Exclusives for Bus …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

An Immersive Willa Cather Experience

… 2023 after a 16-month restoraton. Image The Red Cloud Opera House and National Willa Cather Center in downtown Red … prepare for your visit.   Book the Cather Second Home Guest House Book a Room at Hotel Garber …
Posted: 01/22/2025
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

Guided Seven Building Town Tour

… Guided Seven Building Town Tour Driving Tour Guests should have their own … and plan to follow a tour guide from site to site. Tours last approximately 2 hours. Adults: $25.00 Students: … - $10.00  Children: (5 & under) – Free Book a Tour Willa Cather Childhood Home 245 N Cedar Street The Cather family …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 06/11/2025

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic … Prairie, care for priceless collections, and allow a living memorial to operate for the benefit of generations to …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway

… one of only twenty-two National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska and the site most closely associated with the life … the site opened to visitors in 1967 and was gifted to the Nebraska State Historical Society in 1978. The … the ages of ten to sixteen. While she moved away from Nebraska in 1896, her parents Charles and Mary Virginia …
Posted: 09/26/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2023

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States … that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County and the … close friend. 1912  — Cather’s first novel,  Alexander’s Bridge , appears in  McClure’s  as  Alexander’s Masquerade . …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… The Library is pleased to partner with the National Willa Cather Center to commemorate Willa Cather’s 150th birthday. This monumental year for … Capote’s unfinished reminiscence of his chance meeting with Willa Cather at the New York Society Library in 1942. Light …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… Image Willa Cather Image Join us at the Boston Athenaeum Special Events … preservation, and the arts. Located in Willa Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the Center is an award-winning … Historic Landmark. Guided town, country, and prairie tours provide visitors with an immersive place-based …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/07/2023

Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration

… appropriate fence that was designed based on archival photographs Conservation, cleaning, and treatment to … possessions, canned goods, prints and artwork, and family photographs and books. The room of Cather’s maternal …
Posted: 07/21/2022
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

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