Event Archives

Please note: Tickets to the Dedication of the National Willa Cather Center are now sold out. If you would like to be put on a waiting list for tickets, please phone our office at 402-746-2653. Any available tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis from our waiting list.

On May 18 the Willa Cather Book Club will meet to discuss House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday. 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Fiction. Set at World War 2’s conclusion, this novel picks up the story of Native Americans in the Southwest that we began with Laughing Boy and established Native American fiction in mainstream literature. There are two meeting times available; 4:00 p.m. at Cherry Corner Estates and 6:30 at the Cather Second Home.

“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.” – Willa Cather

On April 20 the Willa Cather Book Club will meet to discuss The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. This novel won the 1953 Pulitzer for Fiction. Old Man is Hemingway’s only Pulitzer, although many considered this an inferior work. The story of Santiago, a poor fisherman, and his greatest catch, not only won the Pulitzer but helped Hemingway to receive the Nobel Prize for literature the following year. There are two meeting times available; 4:00 p.m. at Cherry Corner Estates and 6:30 at the On the Brix.

Todd Green performs original music inspired by many different cultures in the Middle East, Central Asia, Far East and South America on over 30 acoustic string, flute and percussion instruments. His advanced, custom-built electronics gives him almost unlimited freedom to layer instruments as he performs, in effect turning him into a high-tech one-man-band of World Music. Todd has performed for well over 300,000 students over the years. He is a great communicator with any age and very knowledgeable about the instruments and the musical traditions of the many cultures they represent.

On March 16 the Willa Cather Book Club will meet to discuss In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow. Awarded Pulitzer for the Novel in 1942, In This Our Life chronicles decaying Southern society and the wrongs done to an African-American boy. Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl, which is the Cather family’s own antebellum story of race in the South, was published in 1940. There are two meeting times available; 4:00 p.m. at Cherry Corner Estates and 6:30 at the Cather Second Home.

The Willa Cather Foundation and the Red Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce invite you to attend their business after hours and community open house on Friday, March 10, 2017. In addition to networking and conversation, the free event will feature tours of Red Cloud’s restored Moon Block.