Laura Ingalls Wilder will be in the Plum Creek Library System territory during the month of October, presenting her living history programs at a number of library locations throughout the nine-county area. In the highly interactive, program, Mrs. Wilder, also known as Melanie Stringer, relates stories of her real life experiences of life on the prairie in 1896 as told from Laura’s perspective in an unscripted interpretation of Wilder’s experiences.
In her “Meet Laura” program, Stringer portrays Laura as a young adult, living with her husband Almanzo and their daughter Rose in the outskirts of the Ozark town of Mansfield, Missouri, where they had been building up their farm. Times were rough for the family and they struggled financially, yet were still able to survive.
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