Skip to main content
x

User account menu

  • Join
  • Donate
Home
National Willa Cather Center - Red Cloud, NE

User account menu

  • Join
  • Donate

Main navigation

  • About
    • About
      • Willa Cather
      • The Foundation
      • Staff
      • Board of Governors
      • News
      • Annual Reports
      • Newsletters
      • Permissions
  • Visit
    • Visit
      • Hours & Directions
      • Tours
      • Lodging
      • National Willa Cather Center
      • Red Cloud Opera House
      • Cather Prairie
      • Willa Cather's Red Cloud
      • Cather Immersion Package
  • Events
    • Events
      • Art Gallery
      • Author Series
      • Call for Papers
      • International Seminar
      • Opera House
      • Rentals
      • Special Events
      • Spring Conference
  • Collections
    • Collections
      • Historic Sites
      • The Collections at NWCC
      • Explore the Collection
      • Finding Aids
      • Annotations from the Archive
      • Collections Policies
  • Discover
    • Educational Resources
      • Overview
      • For Readers
      • For Teachers
      • For Students
      • For Writers
      • Virtual Tours
      • Exhibits
  • Support
    • Support
      • Donate
      • Membership
      • Planned Giving
      • Charitable IRA Rollover
      • Opera House Sponsor
      • Conference Sponsor
      • Shop
      • Volunteer

Search Results

6 results found

Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa … come and go, but the land is always here...”  —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the prairie settings … at  rolsen@willacather.org  or or (402) 746-2653.  LODGING : We offer comfortable and unique historic lodging …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023

"A Walk in Her Footsteps" Weekend Tour Package

… cities in Europe where I used to love to go.”  – Willa Cather, 1945 Spend three inspiring days exploring Willa … From her quaint childhood home to the windswept prairie that memorializes her, visitors of all ages and … treasures of Red Cloud. ❧ Cather once remarked, “When I go about among little Nebraska towns (and the little towns, not …
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, … of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit  Red Cloud  is to experience a town and entire … Pulitzer Prize winner’s influential writings. LEARN MORE National Willa Cather Center A cultural oasis on the prairie …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 12/01/2025

School Field Trips

… Trips Explore Cather's Childhood Home & More The National Willa Cather Center offers customizable experiences for … on display in the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. Take part in an archival learning activity. During a … of country tour stops as weather and transportation permit. Walk the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie . Complete additional …
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

Willa Cather Center Logo
The National Willa Cather Center
413 North Webster — Red Cloud, NE 68970
402.746.2653
Nebraska Arts Council Nebraska Arts Council
National Endowment for the Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities
American Writers Museum American Writers Museum
Humanities Nebraska Humanities Nebraska
Gold Transparency 2025 Gold Transparency 2025

© All Rights Reserved The Willa Cather Foundation. This institution is an equal opportunity provider & employer. The National Willa Cather Center is the registered trade name of the Willa Cather Foundation, a not-for-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization (TAX ID # 47-0485401) under the Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

Website Designed & Developed by UNANIMOUS
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter/X
  • YouTube