Mt Horeb Historium's 7-18 Event Looks at Laura Ingalls Wilder as Migrant Archetype

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Destinee Udelhoven (destineekae@hotmail.com)
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From: Destinee Udelhoven <destineekae@hotmail.com>
Subject: Mt Horeb Historium's 7-18 Event Looks at Laura Ingalls Wilder as Migrant Archetype
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 07:20:21 +0000
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   with Emily Anderson
                Thursday, July 18 @ 6:00p.m.
   FREE & OPEN TO ALL Laura Ingalls Wilder is an American icon, known for her novels about her fa mily’s experience as American pioneers in the 1870s. But does her Little House on the Prairie series have meaning for today’s immigrants and refug ees to the Midwest? Indeed it does.

Now the themes of courage, hard work, and dedication to family and traditio n play out in modern riffs, such as hit Canadian TV series Little Mosque on
 the Prairie and Minneapolis-based blog Little Laos on the Prairie. Contemp orary immigrants have adapted the iconic pioneer girl’s story about overl and migration to explore current immigration controversies, facts, and myth s.

In this talk, Author Emily Anderson, longtime "Little House" fan and now sc holar, will open a discussion about how immigration is perceived today in l ight of American history, ideals, and representations in pop culture.
[https://gallery.mailchimp.com/31adc7d2fb6e487916f8d1bec/images/ace282cc-67 f0-4cc6-9da4-069facca941b.jpg] Can the “Little House on the Prairie” series be used as a lens for unde rstanding those seeking a new life in the Badger state today, nearly 150 ye ars after Pa played his fiddle in the Big Woods of Wisconsin?

Emily Anderson (left) holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA from Bucknell University. She recently received her docto rate in English from the University at Buffalo.
“Global Migration & Midwestern Sensibilities” is made possible by the W isconsin Humanities Council and their "Working Lives Project" [to find out more, visit their website at www.wisconsinhumanities.org<https://nam01.safe links.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhumanities.o rg%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cd17837711b234fa89bc008d70761d0b2%7C84df9e7fe9f640 afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636985988997270120&sdata=NuowUayxHBPbQlCVO9x jsEJzD1eSQ%2FFYeH3mV62pqsE%3D&reserved=0>] and is part of the Driftless H istorium’s 2019 theme, “Immigrants of Wisconsin: Yesterday and Today.
” This year-long mix of speakers and exhibitions about both early Wiscons in’s foreign-born settlers and current immigration issues and experiences
 hopes to help audiences make connections and recognize patterns and change
 over time.

For more information about July 18th's "Little House" event or the Historiu m's 2019 "Immigrants of Wisconsin" series, call 608-437-6486 or email mthor ebhistory@mhtc.net<mailto:mthorebhistory@mhtc.net>.
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