Yep, The Goose and I, along with "Grammy", are off tomorrow on another adventure! This time, we're driving to Springfield, MO, so we can visit the Laura Ingalls Wilder home and museum near there (in Mansfield). It's going to take two days to drive there (and, so, two days to drive home). We'll spend Wednesday at the home and museum and head back Thursday (both coming and going, we'll stop over in Nashville, which is almost exactly half way there).
I know, it's quite a bit of driving for a one day tour, but, I have wanted to visit this place for so long and mom said (last year), "Sure, I'll come along!" Well, it just took a while to get it planned!
Here's a link to the home and museum. http://www.lauraingallswilderhome.com/
There are other sites, too. The Ingalls' family were original pioneers; coming from WI to ultimately Dakota Territory, via a lot of other places. Then, the Wilder's (Laura, her husband Almanzo and their daughter, Rose) migrated on to a farm in Mansfield, later known as Rocky Ridge Farm.More upon our return!
Mrs. B
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Bet you, Mom, Lucy had a grand time on your trip.
After our wonderful book group crawled thru Wiesel's Night, I asked the 60s, 70s aged ladies what series of books they'd read as children. Like me... Heidi & etc., Anne of Green Gables/Avonlea/of the Island, Little Men & Little Women, Childhood of Famous Americans. One woman "had been laid up w/polio for a year when she was 9 & her mom had bro't home every "Little House" book in the library." I googled... Wilder's first book was published 1937, so must be true. This had escaped the rest of us; maybe because the rest of us are from NY/NJ & Sue is from the Midwest.
Also... Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys... Bobbsey Twins (how could I forget!!) Grimms'/Anderson Fairy Tales. Cherry Ames nurse stories, various horse & dog series.
Both you & Ann loved (I think) the Childhood of Famous Americans series. It's still going strong. Virginia, an American history enthusiast, just bo't her granddaughter one of them.
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