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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud

… Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, … , had a tour of our Special Collections & Archives, and visited the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. They also … of Grass at the Red Cloud Opera House. Throughout their visit, our education staff led the group in lively …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… 1923 In November 1896, after leaving for her first job as editor of The Home Monthly in Pittsburgh , Willa Cather … to Sara Josepha Hale, who, like her, was a writer and editor of a popular ladies’ magazine. In addition to writing … tireless work to create a Thanksgiving holiday—both in her editorials and through a presidential letter-writing …
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The Red Cloud Opera House is on the Nebraska Passport Program

… Image The Red Cloud Opera House is on the Nebraska Passport Program April … Travelers will have from May 1 through September 30 to visit the attractions and get their stamps. The summer … and its people—from the things we make to our unique history,” said Passport Program Coordinator Amanda Barker. …
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Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest

… Image Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest September 27, 2022 There … had escorted his father to Nebraska in 2019 for “one last visit to the Plains.” While visiting south-central Nebraska, the Kyles ventured to Red …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Enjoy an afternoon filled … escaped to freedom and traveled roughly 2,000 miles to visit actual sites, cities, and places that freedom-seekers …
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All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… photographs, railway artifacts, and hands-on activities focused around railroad history, the literary legacy of the … familiar with during her last years in Red Cloud. Cather uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My … of multiple languages (both visually and through the use of audible soundtracks), vivid graphic elements that …
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Group and Motorcoach Tours

… The historic Cather Second Home offers  lodging  for small groups of fifteen or less The boutique Hotel Garber …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… when I confide to you that I would rather go home to Red Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in Europe where I … to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] Visitors to Red Cloud are invited to book a stay at the …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States "The type of writer we have … a few.  Guests are invited to book one 75-minute tour to visit the Willa Cather Childhood Home, Burlington Depot, and …
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