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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 This Holiday & Winter Season! Explore • … half of her childhood in Red Cloud, she returned often to visit family and friends. She once wrote, "I always return …
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, … , had a tour of our Special Collections & Archives, and visited the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. They also … Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud! Our town and country tours, Willa Cather Memorial Prairie visit, and unique …
Posted: 10/23/2019
Last Updated: 11/21/2019

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… feast day was originated by a private individual, and a woman at that. Above all her other interests and duties, the … people, how invaluable would be its associations. That man of mighty proclamations first proclaimed "Thanksgiving … with her family. In a letter to Elizabeth Wolfe Huffmann, on June 13, 1945, Cather recalled her last holidays in …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… fifty miles deep into the Webster County countryside, and includes settings from Willa Cather's novels and childhood: … Education Director, Tracy Tucker, who shares her beautiful images and informative narration. Our longer version, with …
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 Sounds …
Posted: 03/15/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… Welcome to the home of Willa Cather Willa Cather Center By preserving some of the most … journals, notecards, and more.  Shop Online Willa Cather Review Tri-Annual Release Three times a year, the Willa …
Posted: 12/07/2022
Last Updated: 09/10/2026

National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … 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

… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a … Cather Prairie Cather's Red Cloud Cather's Red Cloud Guided Tours The Best Way to Explore Red Cloud The National Willa … many of our historic sites are open year-round for guided tours. Immerse yourself in the small prairie town that is …
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

… Loren Johnson Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation April 10, 2025 Ask Loren Johnson’s former … kindness and compassion. In fact, Johnson cared so deeply about others that he rarely shared much about his own life …
Posted: 04/10/2025
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

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