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Ecotourism on the Great Plains: Red Cloud Workshop

… Ecotourism on the Great Plains: Red Cloud Workshop June 6, 2017 Ecotourism on the Great Plains: … Date and Time Tue, July 18, 2017 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM CDT Location Red Cloud Opera House 411 N Webster St Red Cloud, …
Posted: 06/06/2017
Last Updated: 07/25/2017

71st Annual Spring Conference Schedule

… Spring Conference Schedule Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250 Each day of the spring … America at 150 Susan Wood, Midland University 5:00 PM Gallery Artist Talk with Susan Hart- Red Cloud Opera House … at Grace Episcopal Church 9:45 AM Concurrent Activities   Prairie foraging with Adam Hintz   Micro-Readers Theater: My …
Posted: 04/27/2026
Last Updated: 05/26/2026

Serena's Album

… Serena's Album Loading Serena's Album Rediscovering Serena’s Album In … consider this extraordinary album in its entirety. (For a scholarly perspective on confession albums, and on Cather’s … This, too, may have been meant seriously; early aviation pioneers such as John Joseph Montgomery made headlines …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Through Darkness to Light

… faiths worked together in harmony for freedom and justice. Willa Cather depicted parts of this journey in her novel … and the Slave Girl (1940), basing the story of Nancy's escape on Cather family stories from Virginia. Through … more than a decade researching the ways fugitive slaves escaped to freedom. While the routes of the Underground …
Posted: 01/12/2026
Last Updated: 02/13/2026

Group and Motorcoach Tours

… country roads or take a Cather Country Tour  of rural settings in the author's novels, including the Pavelka …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… Image A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society July 13, … Society , Jay and Wade value the sustained impact that planned giving assures. “We know there’s a need and we … members of the Cather Legacy Society. If you have made a planned gift to the Foundation or would like more …
Posted: 07/13/2016
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

An Interview with Artist Daniel Garringer

… Exhibition by Daniel Garringer is featured in our Red Cloud Opera House Gallery through May 10. We recently spoke with Garringer, an …
Posted: 03/18/2025
Last Updated: 03/18/2025

Historic Sites

… brother, Douglass. Grace Episcopal was built in 1884 and was originally a wooden structure and was moved to … John Pavelka, the couple who inspired characters in both  My Ántonia  and "Neighbour Rosicky," were married in this …
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 … Exploration Backpack . Sign out one for each of your children or yourself to further explore our prairie wonders …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023

Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… 2022 | 12am - Friday, Apr 29, 2022 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … three weeks in April. Represented by the Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York, Youd will also be performing at Joslyn … Faces," pp. 289-314 April 22 — Willa Cather Memorial Prairie (Miner House if inclement ): "Stupid Faces," pp. …
Posted: 03/16/2022
Last Updated: 04/13/2022

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