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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… The Ribbon-Cutting in front of Hotel Garber on April 4 [see Gallery for full captions] Image Hotel Garber in its opening … visitors with access to a new permanent exhibit,  Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud . The exhibit chronicles …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

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 … and event venue will house a lower level Creative Hub that includes spaces for readings, workshops, art classes, … 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: 04/08/2025

Historic Sites

… Bank In 1889, the Farmers and Merchants Bank was erected by Silas Garber, a former Union Army officer who helped to found Red … of Nebraska from 1875–1879. Governor Garber and his wife, Lyra Wheeler Garber, lived in Red Cloud while Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… explore topics that include Pawnee culture; the lives of Silas and Lyra Garber—in life and as portrayed as Captain and Mrs. …
Posted: 07/18/2023
Last Updated: 04/02/2024

Our Campaign for the Future

… the rehabilitation of the Potter Block to establish  Hotel Garber  in downtown Red Cloud, collections conservation … Red Cloud region as home to the Pawnee tribe; the lives of Silas and Lyra Garber—in life and as portrayed as Captain and Mrs. …
Posted: 04/06/2023
Last Updated: 03/08/2024

Making a Place Exhibit Opening!

… in Cather's fiction. The exhibit includes Pawnee culture; Silas and Lyra Garber—in life and as portrayed as Captain and Mrs. …
Posted: 01/29/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four … in part on events in the lives of Silas Garber and his wife Lyra Garber, receives serial publication in  Century  at …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding

… was around 4 o’clock and the next morning there was not a leaf nor kernel of corn left . . . . They ate every leaf off the potato vines, beets, cabbages, turnips, ate the …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!

… Image Image 10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather! April 26, 2023 Experience the prairie … years of our famed writer—and several of her works are also celebrating centenaries. Here are 10 ways that you, too, can … 7. Read Willa Cather's novel, A Lost Lady   is celebrating 100 years of publication, and one of several of Cather's …
Posted: 04/18/2023
Last Updated: 05/02/2023

Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… Image Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen January … staff to develop instructional supports around Cather’s stories and novels, but also to treat educators to engaging … she’s messy, and that is what I love about her. If My Ántonia connects readers to the world of immigrant …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023

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