The fan community, which is predominantly white and female, is torn about how to address their favorite books’ new status as “problematic.”
show, which ran from 1974 to 1983 on NBC and is still in syndication, was actually filmed in California — but fans make the trek three hours south from Minneapolis for the real thing. Other devoted fans, like my neighbor, a middle-aged man who unwinds every afternoon with an episode ofThere were fewer people in Wilder-inspired clothing at the fifth-ever Laurapalooza conference, held in a Wisconsin town not far from Pepin, where Wilder was born — but still a good number.
For Laurapalooza attendees, Wilder’s life and literary oeuvre offer a playground for academic discovery. “Some people have no interest in learning about Laura’s real life. But the people I know can't ever get enough of learning about the real Laura,” Hume, who founded the conference in 2009, says. Though most of the Laurarati first encountered Wilder’s books as children, they were hooked for life for many different reasons. When Stringer’s family was in the throes of economic hardship, Laura’s struggles on the frontier in thebooks offered connection in an otherwise socially isolating experience. “She knows what it’s like to be poor. Ma being very resourceful was reminiscent of my mother, who was babysitting before and after school and working in healthcare at the weekends,” Stringer says.
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