Laura Ingalls Wilder will be at the Adrian Elementary commons on Thursday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m., presenting her living history program. 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 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.
At that point in her life, Laura had not given any thought to writing and was therefore not yet famous, but she had already lived through most of the experiences that she would, decades later, recount in her beloved Little House® novels.
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