HALF-PINT FOLLOWERS `LITTLE HOUSE' FANS COME FACE TO FACE WITH `AUTHOR' WILDER.Byline: Sue Doyle Staff Writer VALENCIA - It was five minutes until the show began and there wasn't an empty seat. And still they came. Young girls with books in hand standing at the back of the room, squeezing onto benches filled with others, anywhere there was room. It could have been a peculiar sight for any library on a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon, but then again this was no ordinary crowd filing in. They were fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder - the pioneer woman from the Midwest who wrote a series of books about growing up on the frontier On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Two Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the third and last play in the Auden-Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1938. in the late 1800s and was portrayed in the TV show ``Little House on the Prairie.'' The elementary school elementary school: see school. girls had many questions for the writer, re-enacted by living history actress Judith Helton at the Valencia Library. What happened in the second book when they made a well and detected gas? What did money look like then? Did Mr. Edwards really spit? Dressed in a pale, calico calico, plain weave cotton fabric in one or more colors. Calico, named for Calicut, India, where the fabric originated, was mentioned by historians before the Christian era and praised by early travelers for its fine texture and beautiful colors. bonnet bonnet usually worn along with new clothes on Easter Sunday. (“Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet.”) [Christian Tradition: Misc.; Am. Music: Irving Berlin, “Easter Parade”] See : Easter and matching sundress sun·dress n. A light summer dress with a bodice that exposes the arms and shoulders. Noun 1. sundress - a light loose sleeveless summer dress with a wide neckline and thin shoulder straps that expose the arms and , Helton replied, adding stories to each of her answers that the girls, most of whom have read the entire series, pondered closely for accuracy. ``They know everything,'' Helton said. ``Often they're reading the books in school, and sometimes they mouth the words as I speak.'' Black-and-white photos of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family were displayed on both sides of Helton as she brought the room of about 75 back in time by recounting stories from the series. Tales of dolls made from corn cobs, bears in the woods and life on the frontier would hardly have anything in common with Saturday's suburban crowd of miniskirts and Ugg boots, except that they are all young girls finding their way through life like Laura Ingalls Wilder did in her books. And there lies the connection. Eight-year-old Kristy Ewing said she could relate to the pioneer girl because they both played outside and ran around barefoot bare·foot also bare·foot·ed adv. & adj. With nothing on the feet: walking barefoot in the grass; a barefoot boy. . She's read all five books in the series. The Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, girl came to the event with her grandmother Venita Ewing, who was a fan of the TV show that first aired in the 1970s and starred Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls Wilder. The day brought many pairings like that. Mothers, grandmothers, aunts and older cousins, all who knew of Half-Pint and then passed on their love for her to others in the family. When Kerri McGuff's niece NIECE, domestic relations: The daughter of a person's brother or sister. Amb. 514; 1 Jacob's Ch. R. 207. Hailey Yacovone was old enough, she shared Wilder's books with her, and together they watched the TV series on DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. . The stories are still dear to the 24-year-old McGuff. ``Life was harder then but more simple at the same time,'' she said. Sue Doyle, (6610257-5254 sue.doyle(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1 -- color -- ran in SAC Sac: see Sac and Fox. SAC - 1. An early system on the Datatron 200 series. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. edition only) Actress Judith Helton channels Laura Ingalls Wilder on Saturday in Valencia. Alex Collins/Special to the Daily News (2) Laura Ingalls Wilder, played by Judith Helton, holds up a picture of ``herself'' for the Valencia Library audience on Saturday. (3 -- 4) Kids take a look at Laura Ingalls Wilder trinkets on Saturday at the Valencia Library, above. A pocket watch sits near one of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, at left. (5) Larry Ring and daughter Lauren, 6, look at books and trinkets representing Laura Ingalls Wilder's stories Saturday. Alex Collins/Special to the Daily News |
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