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Somehow I never read these as a child. Now I volunteer at a little museum dedicated to Arizona's pioneer history, and it seems every child who comes in is reading (or watching) Little House on the Prairie. This one is pretty gripping, with all the foreshadowing of the terrible winter shown as the Ingalls make hay and then the descriptions of the howling wind, the frost inside the house, twisting hay to burn, and the hunger. I was really interested in all their survival tactics. I often hear the young mothers who visit us say "Oh wasn't it better to live in simpler times!" I don't actually scoff at them but I do ask them to think about things like going to the dentist, dying in childbirth, and the sheer physical labor involved in every daily task. Now I can talk about winter - although here in central AZ that's not going to impress anyone.
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