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Discover Deep Valley A Guide to Maud Hart Lovelace's Mankato By Julie A Schrader To find Deep Valley in this bustling modern city, you have to close your eyes to the airport, to the streams of automobiles, and to many beautiful new homes and schools and shops. You have to imagine horses and carriages, ladies with trailing skirts and ruffled parasols and children in long black stockings. Maud Hart Lovelace, 1961 Over the years fans of Maud Hart Lovelace have traveled to Mankato to visit the homes of Betsy and Tacy and seek out the places of Maud's childhood. It is still possible to revisit the streets of Maud Hart Lovelace's Deep Valley. Let your imagination take you back in time to an era when Maud was a young Victorian girl. Step into the pages of the Betsy-Tacy books when you visit Maud Hart Lovelace's childhood home. Walk in her footsteps through the historic Lincoln Park neighborhood nestled in the picturesque hills of Mankato. This guidebook will lead you on a self-guided tour of Maud's Deep Valley. Soft Cover, 184 pp. To order by mail: Click here for an order form. About the Author Minnesota native, Julie A. Schrader, worked as Project Director for the The Heritage of Blue Earth County, from 1988 to 1990. She established her own publishing company, Minnesota Heritage Publishing, in 2001 and works as a publishing consultant helping individuals self-publish. Author of The History of the Red Jacket Valley, her writing has also appeared in the Mankato Free Press, Applauze Magazine, Blue Earth County Historical Society and Betsy-Tacy Society newsletters. She was also the coordinator of the Deep Valley Book Festival in Mankato for several years. In 2002, she released her third book entitled, Maud Hart Lovelace's Deep Valley. Schrader was the Executive Director for the Betsy-Tacy Society, editor of the Deep Valley Sun (Betsy-Tacy newsletter) and the editor of the Katoland Connection paper for eight years. Schrader wrote the Afterword for "The Black Angels" by Maud Hart Lovelace reprinted by Minnesota Heritage Publishing in 2009. In 2010 she wrote the Afterword for HarperCollins reprints of Lovelace's Emily of Deep Valley and Winona's Pony Cart. |
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