First Lady Laura Bush visits home of the author of Little House on the Prairie books
MANSFIELD, Mo. -- First Lady Laura Bush visited the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum on Friday. Bush told her small audience that she has always wanted to visit the place where Wilder wrote her Little House on the Prairie books and others. She's happy she got to do it before the end of her husband's term as president.
Bush also came bearing good news. She designated the site was an official project of the Save America's Treasures, which makes it eligible for a preservation grant.
A quiet walk through the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum is something that the first lady says she has looked forward to doing for years.
“I loved her books. My mother read them to me when I was little, before I could read,” she said.
Bush says she felt a close relationship with the young girl in those stories, when she was a child.
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Bush also came bearing good news. She designated the site was an official project of the Save America's Treasures, which makes it eligible for a preservation grant.
A quiet walk through the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum is something that the first lady says she has looked forward to doing for years.
“I loved her books. My mother read them to me when I was little, before I could read,” she said.
Bush says she felt a close relationship with the young girl in those stories, when she was a child.