LauraPalooza 2010: Legacies [See photos here]
July 15-17 2010 at Minnesota State University at Mankato, Mankato, Minnesota
Winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy Award: William T. Anderson
Speakers and highlights:
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Keynote by longtime LIW biographer William Anderson
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town author John Miller
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life author Pamela Smith Hill
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Best-selling novelist Wendy Corsi Staub
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Dean “Almanzo Wilder” Butler and his documentary, Life Before Laura
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Seed wheat trip presentation by Jim Hicks
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The Long Winter‘s weather by meteorologist Barb Mayes Boustead
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Spelling Bee
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Special post-conference field trip to Walnut Grove, Minnesota — the setting for On the Banks of Plum Creek