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| | News: August 18, 2001 (Watertown, South Dakota) |
 | | If you watched television in the 1970's, the name "Walnut Grove" might ring a bell because it was, of course, the setting for the television series, "Little House on the Prairie," based loosely on the childhood of Laura Ingalls Wilder. |
 | | Her parents, Charles and Caroline, moved the family around the Midwest throughout the 1870's and 1880's because Charles, it seems, had a bad case of itchy feet, plus he couldn't hold down a job for one reason or another (though he could play a mean fiddle, just like in the television series). |
 | | By the way, I discovered that the Ingalls family lived in Walnut Grove in 1879, which, interestingly enough, was the same year that my great-great-grandfather, Henry Reinhard, moved to this area from points east. |
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