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A New Home
When I was a kid there were a number of shows we watched religiously. Buck Rodgers, Airwolf, the A-Team, all of the usual boy stuff. Yet there was one other show that captured the hearts and minds of most of the nation. That show was Little House on the Prairie.
The show, which ran from 1974-1983 on NBC, was a very loose interpretation of the book series written by and based on the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The Ingalls were a pioneer family that lived in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota and South Dakota in the 1800’s. The show chronicled some of the events in the life of Laura and her family. It should be called “Little Disaster on the Prairie” because each week something bad happened. Eventually, as the series ran on, and plot ideas ran thin, it got more and more absurd and repetitive. Still this show had us, and most of America, glued to the TV every day. It starred Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson and Karen Grassle. Later years would see a very young Shannon Doherty on the show as well. For your own little house, you might need mortgage loans today.
While Ingalls in the books moved around a lot, the show was primarily set in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. In fact, the books show what life was like back then. They sold their cabin in Wisconsin and moved near Independence, Kansas, as the rumors said it would be open to homesteaders soon. While in Independence, they meet the kind and lovable Mr. Edwards, a person anyone who watched the show would remember as well. He helps them build their house and dig a well. During that year the came down with what was later identified as Malaria but were able to survive. After the farm was planted, they found out the land was not open for homesteaders and they were forced to move, this time to the famed Walnut Grove. I wonder if they needed to compare home loans then?
Pa Ingalls had hoped the new home would be “a land of milk and honey,” but after two years of plagues of locust eating their crops he decided they should move again. It is an interesting study of the old West to see how often they moved around and were willing to rebuild everything. They spent a brief time in Iowa and then back to Walnut Grove. When their father decided DeSmet, South Dakota held more promise for them their mother had enough of the moves and made him promise not to move anymore. He was true to his word and the settled in DeSmet once and for all, but they probably didn't have the internet to check home equity loan rates.
Laura Ingalls married Almanzo Wilder and became Laura Ingalls Wilder. They themselves finally settled in Mansfield, Missouri and it was there that she wrote her books. The town was her final home and every year the whole town celebrates he writings with a festival, parade and selling handmade crafts.
Dunkel Oneal
Laura and Jenna Bush - National Book Festival 2008
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