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Pioneer Girl Book Release and Artist Talk
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Pioneer Girl Book Release and Artist Talk - Judy Thompson
Homestead National Historical Park has been selected as a location for a pre-release event for the third book of the Pioneer Girl series. This series, produced by South Dakota Historical Society Press, explores Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life and literary works through a scholarly lens.
On Sunday, October 10th at 2pm watercolor artist Judy Thompson will speak about her experience illustrating the series and how her time as an artist-in-residence at Homestead National Historical Park influenced her work. The event will take place outside of the Education Center. The book will be available for purchase that day, before and after the presentation. Thompson will also have prints of her Homestead Series paintings for purchase and will sign copies of the Pioneer Girl books.
This event is a chance to get the book early and learn more about the series. Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts will release to the public on Friday, October 15th. The book takes a close look at the progression of Laura Ingalls Wilder's writing and the influences her daughter/editor, Rose Wilder Lane, had on Wilder’s stories. The book compares three drafts of the manuscript as the mother-daughter pair worked together to transform Wilder's autobiography into the Little House series.
Make sure to view Judy Thompson’s artwork on display at Homestead National Historical Park in the Education Center until November 15th.
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South Dakota Historical Society Press / Judy Thompson