Imagine you are reading a book that you loved as a child, perhaps you are reading it to your young child, or that you are reading it for the very first time. You come across the words “the only good Indian was a dead Indian.” Do you put the book down in horror,...
Laura McLemore
An educator since 1983, Dr. Laura Moats McLemore was destined to a lifelong love of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her mother read Little House in the Big Woods in second grade and named her second daughter after the beloved author. McLemore portrayed Laura Ingalls Wilder for the first time in 1993 and shared Wilder’s life across the Midwest. She was a fifth-grade teacher and resident of Maize, Kansas before her passing in July, 2023.