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PEPIN - Residents of Laura
Ingalls Wilder's birthplace in northwestern Wisconsin will
be celebrating her life next weekend.
Wilder was born in the hills
near Pepin in 1867. "Little House in the Big
Woods" was set in Pepin and launched a nine-book
"Little House" series that made her a household
name.
The fictionalized stories
track the family's life and travels in Wisconsin, Missouri,
Kansas, Minnesota and South Dakota.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Days
Festival on Saturday and Sunday includes guided bus tours to
her birth site, demonstrations of blacksmithing,
woodworking, hand-spinning and quilting as well as a contest
where fans demonstrate their Wilder knowledge.
Wilder died in 1957 at the
age of 90.
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