thank you very much for having me and asking me to talk to carolyn fraser. very exciting. readnk probably most of us the little house on the prairie books when we were young and maybe many others and watched it on tv. which i did. i was getting to be a teenager at that time so sometimes i was a little skeptical and thought it was a little corny but we will get back to that later. how long have you researched and studied? and why did you start studying laura ingalls wilder? i also discovered the books as a kid and read them and loved them and thought they were fantastic. i think part of the reason i really loved them was because my grandmother and most of my grandparents had been farmers in the midwest. from --e all immigrants mainly from scandinavian places and came to minnesota, wisconsin , and were farming in the late 1890's. and some of the same places, the same areas that laura ingalls had lived. so i think it was really fascinating to me to discover these books that told stories that cast some light on what they must have gone through. and then, as an adult, i had an

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