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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… Image The Burlington Depot is on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud … cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa … at our unique historic sites and settings —even a longer Country Tour and Prairie Tour! When planning your visit, all …
Posted: 11/13/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2024

Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud

… Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, sixteen … engaged in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered …
Posted: 10/23/2019
Last Updated: 11/21/2019

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… niece, 1909 Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud November 7, 2025 "There we have short, bitter … of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather,  "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,"   … Red Cloud was.” If you've ever thought of coming home (or visiting) Red Cloud over the holidays, Cather's dear old …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the … Another way to lose yourself in Cather's world is to take our guided  Country Tour  which highlights twenty … during  National Pollinator Week , June 19-15 "I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023

Soundstitching: Sites and Sounds of Willa Cather's World

… Soundstitching process allows visitors to experience Willa Cather's world in a whole new way. Soundstitching: Sites and … in Auburn, Nebraska, and earned a B.F.A in painting and sculpture, and a B.S. in Art Education from Northwest …
Posted: 03/15/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … watch the sunrise and sunset at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Explore scenic country roads on a Cather "Country … travel; happiness and sadness; the bitter and the sweet.   About the Exhibit Introductory Short Film About Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/14/2026

Visit

… the arrival of traveling productions such as The Bohemian Girl and The Mikado. As Cather herself put it, “Only real …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift

… Image Kohout at Willa Cather's grave in Jaffrey, NH Image Viewing Cather's … in 1972 at 102 years old and is buried in her hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Kohout grew up in Texas, but each summer she visited her mother’s family in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has …
Posted: 09/10/2024
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation

… in the same breath Johnson’s kindness and compassion. In fact, Johnson cared so deeply about others that he rarely … with the University of Utah. Johnson’s selfless final act didn’t surprise Harman and Pedroza, but what did come as … a dozen former students at his memorial.” Johnson’s impact on these two former students was so great that in their …
Posted: 04/10/2025
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… explore not only the literal landscapes and rooms her characters inhabit, but also the cultural, historical, and … 2024 Jonathan Larson Grant. Their rock musical Weightless (WP Theater, A.C.T., Public Theater’s Under the Radar) was … both shape and reflect a person’s experience and character. And then there is Jim’s problematic suggestion in  My …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

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