LauraPalooza 2012: What Would Laura Do? [See photos here]
July 12-14, 2012 at Minnesota State University at Mankato, Mankato, Minnesota
Winners of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy Award: Barbara Walker and Shirley Knakmuhs
Highlights:
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Performance by Alison “Nellie Oleson” Arngrim
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Keynote by LIW biographer William Anderson
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Little House Cookbook author and Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy Award Winner Barbara Walker
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Authors’ reception including Barbara Walker, The Wilder Life author Wendy McClure, My Life As Laura author Kelly Ferguson, and others
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The return of the National Weather Service’s Barbara Mayes Boustead and physics teacher/Laura fan Jim Hicks
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Spelling Bee and Silent Auction
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Special post-conference field trip to Walnut Grove, Minnesota — the setting for On the Banks of Plum Creek
- Dean “Almanzo Wilder” Butler and Dale Cockrell of Pa’s Fiddle Recordings speaking on the PBS Little House music special filmed earlier that year in Nashville.
- Camp Laura for kids grades K-6