FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 21, 2010
Contact:
Amy Mattson Lauters, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mass Communications
Minnesota State University, Mankato
507.389.5523
Mankato, MN: LauraPalooza 2010 Wins Bring It Home Award in Mankato
The Greater Mankato Convention and Visitors Bureau Tuesday presented the Bring It Home Award to Laurapalooza, a conference about Laura Ingalls Wilder that took place July 15-17, 2010. It was organized by the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association and sponsored by the Department of Mass Communications at The University of Minnesota, Mankato.
Amy Lauters displays the award given to LauraPalooza by the Greater Mankato Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Amy Lauters, faculty member, accepted the award on behalf of everyone who attended, organized, and helped with the three-day conference. “When Anna Thill, the director of the GMCVB, called to tell me we had won this award, I was stunned,” says Lauters. “I didn’t even know we’d been nominated. But then Anna explained to me that the award goes to a community body that has gone above and beyond to bring visitors to Mankato. And we certainly did that.”
LauraPalooza catered to more than 180 people each day, including 152 pre-registered participants. Speakers and guests included TV’s “Little House on the Prairie”’s Dean Butler; Wilder biographers William Anderson, Pamela Smith Hill, and John Miller; and many more scholars and researchers who shared s their thoughts about the world and legacies of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane.
“On behalf of the city of Mankato businesses,” says Lauters, “I thank you for your support. And this award goes to all of us.”
The conference was organized by the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association. Board members of the LIWLRA contribute to the web site “Beyond Little House” (www.beyondlittlehouse.com), the premier collaborative Laura Ingalls Wilder site on the Internet, and the Homesteader, the only full-color publication about Laura Ingalls Wilder and all of the museums that honor her (www.homesteadernewsletter.com).
For more information on the conference, visit www.beyondlittlehouse.com or call Dr. Lauters at 507.389.5523.
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