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Ring in the Holiday Season in Red Cloud
… Foundation. The Auld Public Library is hosting their annual Tour of Homes from 1-4 p.m. on December 7. Tickets and maps … everyone 10 years of age and older. Featured stops on the tour include the homes of Ryan and Krystal Zimmerman, Kirk … a free will donation, come sample some of the best soups in town. A “Best of the Showdown” will be awarded to the soup …
Posted: 12/29/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
A.P. Andrews to Lead Writing Workshop
… to gain valuable writing experience while visiting the town that inspired Nebraska’s Pulitzer Prize-winning author. … includes twenty hours of direct instruction from Andrews, a tour of seven historic sites related to Cather’s life and …
Posted: 06/29/2015
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration
… also involved the replication of two slender sandstone tourelles that once flanked the tower upward to the cornice … of the pyramidal roof. The new stones replace the original tourelles that were damaged to the point of instability, … utilized as one of many attractions on the guided town tour of Red Cloud, owing to its connection to Silas and …
Posted: 08/16/2021
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center
… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center … center. The facility, which will be located in Cather’s childhood home of Red Cloud, Nebraska, will provide almost … research center, classroom, expanded bookstore and art gallery, dressing rooms and backstage facilities for the Red …
Posted: 01/04/2015
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi
… the home is a permanent feature on the Foundation’s guided town tour of Cather’s Red Cloud. Executive Director, Ashley …
Posted: 10/19/2020
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns
… outreach project, as well as on the front lines of tour and visitor engagement in our bookstore. Thara is also … walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with small towns before I came to Red Cloud. My Mom had left to go back …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021
Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year
… Janet Maruhn. Janet is Jim Owens’s mother and works as a tour guide at the National Willa Cather Center. Jen Schriner … a volunteer, and with his tractor he tills gardens around town. Here at the National Willa Cather Center, Leroy has … alongside founder Mildred Bennett, devised the first guided tours of Red Cloud and Catherland and was first editor of …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 04/26/2021
Educator & Student Opportunities this Spring
… in town and in the country. Students reading My Ántonia or learning about Nebraska history will benefit from visiting … we are circulating an Educator Needs Assessment survey to learn more about how we can better serve teachers and … for our Ántonia and Antonette Willa Skupa Turner scholarships is Thursday, February 28th. You can find …
Posted: 02/18/2020
Last Updated: 02/25/2020
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 … of Grass at the Red Cloud Opera House. Throughout their visit, our education staff led the group in lively …
Posted: 10/23/2019
Last Updated: 11/21/2019
Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall
… Image Image Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall July 31, 2019 Summer is in full-swing … or groups who want to learn more about Willa Cather and the town that inspired so much of her writing. Here at the … My Ántonia ? If so, our 7-Building Tour throughout the town will enrich student engagement with the novel and their …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 08/29/2019