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Tag: Wilder Homestead
Almanzo Wilder’s Farm in Malone on a National Show
LOCAL INTEREST, NATIONAL SHOW! Footage from the Mountain Lake PBS “Spotlight” piece “Almanzo’s Home” will appear on a nationally distributed PBS show this fall. Authors and their Hometowns, the companion documentary to THE GREAT AMERICAN READ, explores real locations that have inspired works of literature. Fans of Anne of Green Gables, for example, know that a real house…
Actor helps to preserve a “Little House” landmark
Every summer, Little House on the Prairie fans flock to the Wilder Homestead in Malone, New York. They enjoy touring the house and grounds where the husband of author Laura Ingalls Wilder spent his childhood. Laura documented these early memories of Almanzo Wilder in her historical novel Farmer Boy, published in 1933. The Wilder Homestead…
Whimsical Lecture Celebrates A Literary Treasure in the North Country
After a journey through the blowing snow to Malone, New York, over the weekend, I found myself ready to address a group of 45 people about treks to sites made famous by children’s literature. This would be the second time I gave my “Pilgrimage” presentation, the first having been in an academic setting in Cambridge,…
Visit the real home of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s famous Farmer Boy
Paul Larson takes us to the Almanzo Wilder Homestead, for a look into the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s famous Farmer Boy. Visitors may see the room where Almanzo slept, the parlor where he threw a dirty stove brush at his bossy sister, and the farm where the young boy learned how to care for…
