Author visit with Cindy Wilson
Tue, Jan 10
|New Hampton Public Library
Author Cindy Wilson will join us via Zoom to discuss her book The Beautiful Snow, which looks at the history behind the Hard Winter of 1880-81, which is what inspired Laura Ingalls Wilder's book The Long Winter.
Time & Location
Jan 10, 2023, 5:30 PM
New Hampton Public Library, 20 W Spring St, New Hampton, IA 50659, USA
About the event
Author Cindy Wilson will join us via Zoom to discuss her book The Beautiful Snow, which looks at the history behind the Hard Winter of 1880-81, which is what inspired Laura Ingalls Wilder's book The Long Winter.
The presentation will begin with an overview of the Hard Winter as found in the newspaper record, then we'll explore some of Wilder’s struggles to convert her family’s experiences into a nearly perfect novel within the Little House series. If you're a fan of the Little House series of books, you won't want to miss this.