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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the … 281 near Lebanon, Kansas). If you're searching for the best location for a spectacular Nebraska sunset, sunrise, or even … and includes settings from Willa Cather's novels and childhood: homesteads and related cemeteries, churches, the …
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

… Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land … strangeness,’ of saturating color and light. When you walk the Cather Prairie, you move not only backward in time … Cather’s Prairie ,” The New Yorker We encourage you to take guided tours that depart from the National Willa Cather …
Posted: 06/26/2020
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Experience America’s Literary Legacy

Image Experience America’s Literary Legacy Discover Willa Cather and Red Cloud "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, 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 used to love to go . . ." …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 09/16/2025

School Field Trips

… Bittersweet: The Life and Writing of Willa Cather . Browse the current exhibit on display in the Red Cloud Opera …
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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