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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page

How the logs of the “Little House” cabin were stolen

The logs that Charles Ingalls used to build the little house on the prairie did not belong to him but to the Osage Indians, says Laura Ingalls Wilder biographer Caroline Fraser. It was an act of theft, though it certainly wasn’t seen so at the ...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s famous gingerbread recipe

  In her adult life, Laura Ingalls Wilder was famous for her gingerbread. While the gingerbread doesn't appear in the books, we interviewed several people who knew her for the film Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page and asked them if they'd ever tasted it ...

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy

Keith Haring’s brush with celebrity culture

As Keith Haring became more famous, he got to know the biggest celebrities of the era, referring to them by their first names. It started with Andy (Warhol), and continued with Brooke (Shields), Michael (Jackson), Farrah (Fawcett), Yoko (Ono), and more. "Getting to hobnob with ...

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy

Meet Keith Haring’s art dealer, famous for defacing Picasso

Once Keith Haring's work started to create a buzz in the art world, he needed to find an art dealer to help him. He chose Tony Shafrazi, a big personality who was infamous for defacing Picasso's "Guernica" at the Museum of Modern Art. "He believed ...

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Keith Haring: Street Art Boy

Facing death from AIDS, Keith Haring kept creating

Keith Haring will forever be remembered as a prolific artist who shirked convention and elitism to bring art to the streets and its people. Lesser known is just how much Haring's HIV diagnosis in 1987 helped propel the work of one of history's best known ...