Missouri Honors Writers, Artists with Tour

According to News-Leader.com out of Springfield, MO, the Writers Hall of Fame--didn't know there was such a thing--will be honoring 15 of Missouri’s most successful and well-known children’s authors, artists, playwrights and poets with a traveling tour in June.

The tour begins in St. Louis and moves to Kansas City and southwest Missouri before returning to St. Louis eight days later. Among one of the many places that attendees will visit is the Laura Ingalls Wilder home and museum in Mansfield.

You can read more about this event here.

First Lady Laura Bush visits the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum

A friend turned me onto this article from News-Leader.com out of Springfield, Missouri that talks about First Lady Laura Bush's visit to Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum. The article states that the museum's curator Jean Coday was presented with a letter and certificate designating the site as an official project of Save America's Treasures at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Save America's Treasures is a program dedicated to the preservation and celebration of historic and cultural treasures and according to Bush they will give advice to Coday and the board so they can apply for an SAT grant.

Sounds like good news for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum and all of Laura's fans.

You can read the entire article here.


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