"A Lovely Lion": Laura Ingalls Wilder's Detroit Book Fair Speech and the Detroit Public Library Collection

In 1937, when she was 70 years old, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled to Detroit to deliver a speech that would forever after be known as her "Detroit Book Fair Speech." What was the Detroit Book Fair? What was in her speech? Why is this speech considered so integral to her career? Eddie Higgins returns to the podcast with answers to all of this and more. Then, eavesdrop on our field trip to the Detroit Public Library, home of one of the most robust collections of Laura Ingalls Wilder artifacts.

===================Theme music is "Roll the Old Chariot Along" from the album Green Willow by the Dreadnaughts. Used with permission.====================