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National Willa Cather Center is Open: Plan Your Visit!

… Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska,  the Center provides almost 20,000 square feet of …
Posted: 06/13/2017
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

IMLS-Funded Exhibit to Open in the National Willa Cather Center

… that grows outside Cather’s childhood home in Red Cloud, Nebraska, explores and embraces the complexities of Cather’s … grew up in Red Cloud and graduated from the University of Nebraska, is one the most important American novelists of …
Posted: 09/21/2015
Last Updated: 12/07/2015

National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather Center …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/04/2026

One-Day Bus Tour to the National Willa Cather Center

… Red Cloud Special Events Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025 | All day CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … tour the recently restored Willa Cather Childhood Home, and visit other settings from her acclaimed novel My Ántonia . …
Posted: 03/05/2024
Last Updated: 09/05/2025

American Bittersweet: The Life & Writing of Willa Cather

… that grows outside Cather’s childhood home in Red Cloud, Nebraska, explores and embraces the complexities of Cather’s …
Posted: 01/29/2025
Last Updated: 01/29/2025

National Willa Cather Center Selected for the 2021 Nebraska Passport Program

… Image National Willa Cather Center Selected for the 2021 Nebraska Passport Program April 22, 2021 The Nebraska Tourism Commission has announced that the National … Center will be one of seventy stops included in the 2021 Nebraska Passport program this year. Nebraskans and tourists …
Posted: 03/29/2021
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Guided Willa Cather Tours

Guided Willa Cather Tours The National Willa Cather Center and many of our historic sites are open for guided tours year-round. Four of the historic sites are fully accessible to those with limited mobility. Begin your exploration of settings from …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!

… the prairie world of writer Willa Cather in Red Cloud, Nebraska! This year, the National Willa Cather Center, and … are 10 ways that you, too, can celebrate while visiting Nebraska this year (or around the country)! 1. Hike and … Cather Foundation after 1955. Founder of Red Cloud and Nebraska’s fourth governor, Garber and his socialite wife …
Posted: 04/18/2023
Last Updated: 05/02/2023

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… is her childhood bedroom and its original wallpaper in The Song of the Lark  or the Miner House that became the Harling home in My … around you. Listen only to the sound of the wind and the larks or the gentle murmur of cattle — or just the sound of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Visit

… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National Willa Cather Center is an award-winning museum in the heart …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

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