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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud

… in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered through the Road Scholar program—”Red Cloud: Willa Cather’s Window to the World”—participants enjoyed lectures … They also experienced our “ Country Tour ” on board a vintage trolley that successfully navigated the grid matrix …
Posted: 10/23/2019
Last Updated: 11/21/2019

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather,  "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,"   published in The …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

The Red Cloud Opera House is on the Nebraska Passport Program

… Image The Red Cloud Opera House is on the Nebraska Passport Program April 15, 2016 The Nebraska Tourism Commission is pleased to announce the stops that will be on the summer 2016 Nebraska Passport. “The Passport Program encourages …
Posted: 04/15/2016
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest

… This summer, we received notice of an unexpected and generous bequest from Dr. Joseph D. ‘Joe’ Kyle. The news came from … and the Army Language Schools, where he studied German and Russian. Joe was recalled to duty during the Berlin Wall … Foundation as a beneficiary in your estate plans, please contact Ashley Olson, Executive Director, at …
Posted: 09/27/2022
Last Updated: 12/20/2022

Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… Programming at the National Willa Cather Center's Red Cloud Opera House Gallery is made possible with the support of the …
Posted: 01/28/2026
Last Updated: 01/30/2026

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and … Depot ( thread on canvas). 100th anniversary copy of My Ántonia. $5,000 X X X X X X $2,500 X X X X X   $1,000 X X …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Group and Motorcoach Tours

… in the quiet rural town of Red Cloud, Nebraska—childhood home of writer Willa Cather. Alongside the Red Cloud Opera … Experience Visit the fully-restored  Willa Cather Childhood home and other sites related to Willa Cather's life and … : The Life & Writing of Willa Cather  and Making A Place: A Long History of Red Cloud — and changing art …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout. This book changed Cather scholarship, since it was the first widely available …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… is called Moonstone for the town in Cather's novel  The Song of the Lark . During Cather's time, this was the room of Willa's …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… book one 75-minute tour to visit the Willa Cather Childhood Home, Burlington Depot, and J.L. Miner House while viewing … archival collections connected to mourning practices, workplace injuries, and even Cather's own personal interest in … devices. The Final Stop, a post-tour reception, will take place at the National Willa Cather Center from 7:15 - 9:15 …
Posted: 08/18/2025
Last Updated: 10/14/2025

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