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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… come and go, but the land is always here...”  —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the prairie settings … lodging through Airbnb at the  Cather Second Home Guest House —a Cather family home—and the  Villa Willa , a modern … programs, and exhibits — held at the Red Cloud Opera House and National Willa Cather Center — to plan …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023

"A Walk in Her Footsteps" Weekend Tour Package

… beautiful cities in Europe where I used to love to go.”  – Willa Cather, 1945 Spend three inspiring days exploring … Cather's world and Red Cloud with our newly launched "A Walk In Her Footsteps" weekend tour! The National Willa … the sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the …
Posted: 09/18/2019
Last Updated: 03/21/2023

Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie

… and friends and to “get out among the folk who like me for myself,” as she said in a 1921 interview. "The ideas for all my novels have come from things that happened around Red … country then, on foot, on horseback and in our farm wagons. My nose went poking into nearly everything.” The prairie …
Posted: 06/26/2020
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Experience America’s Literary Legacy

… equipped and applianced kitchen awaits, with a gourmet local market across the street! BOOK THE VILLA WILLA …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/14/2025

School Field Trips

… During a half-day field trip, students will be able to: Visit all of the sites on the guided town tour , including … . Browse the current exhibit on display in the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. Take part in an archival learning …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/14/2025

Meet Intern William Kelly

… at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural … It adds another dimension to her stories when you can walk around the setting of that story, whether it’s Hanover, … after that, I’ll move on to the famed My Ántonia . I try to take my reading out to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie as …
Posted: 07/01/2019
Last Updated: 07/03/2019

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