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Group Tours
… Group Tours Visit Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie and meet Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/11/2024
Brattleboro Literary Festival's Literary Cocktail Hour:
… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center The Life of Willa Cather with Benjamin Taylor … Benjamin Taylor and Ashley Olson will be in conversation about the life of Willa Cather. Combining intricate analysis … author, as well as the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, historic lodging, and the Red Cloud Opera House. …
Posted: 02/05/2024
Last Updated: 02/06/2024
“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… Her soul was given texture and form on its sweeping plains, under its clear skies, in contact with the hardy … and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of the Great Plains that Cather loved and knew as a young woman, … of the change from coppery-brown prairie, peopled only by bison herds and bands of Indian hunters and wild fowl, into …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023
Visit
… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National … Cather Prairie Cather's Red Cloud Cather's Red Cloud Guided Tours The Best Way to Explore Red Cloud The National Willa … for guided tours. Immerse yourself in the small prairie town that is home to the nation's largest collection of …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 08/31/2023
Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … will highlight connections to Red Cloud’s history and Willa Cather’s life and writing. The project is a key priority for … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
Posted: 07/21/2022
Last Updated: 08/24/2023
Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking
… years. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … milestones in Red Cloud’s history and connections to Willa Cather’s life and writing. The project is a key priority for … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
Posted: 09/27/2022
Last Updated: 08/24/2023
Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
… it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free … monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … Mad Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and The …
Posted: 07/08/2023
Last Updated: 07/13/2023
Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather … the essence of Cather's context and enlighten listeners about the meaning of Cather's inclusion in her own writing. … One of Ours. “I wanted my red-headed soldier from a prairie farm to 'get some of his back,' . . . through a fine …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023
Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!
… between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, … helping out guests by working in the bookstore and giving town tours around Red Cloud, as well as researching resources for …
Posted: 07/07/2023
Last Updated: 07/07/2023
Press Room
… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, and the work of the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Contact Information … setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023