In this issue: a Laura fan who is also a doctor offers her best medical guess as to what ailment was truly responsible for Mary’s degeneration into blindness. a full-color pictorial of the daylong annual Prairie Days Festival in Independence,…

In this issue: a factual look at the “Hard Winter” of 1880-1881, as part of our continuing series on Laura’s life in a historical context photographs and description of a pre-restoration visit to the Wilder home in Malone a feature…