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Author Gilbert, Melissa, 1964- author.

Title Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered / Melissa Gilbert ; foreword by Tim Busfield.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Group, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  LP BIO GILBERT    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 377 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium large print (16 pt.) rda
Series Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir
Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.
Contents Escape from New York -- Look past the crap -- An offer and a gentleman -- Ask me again in the morning -- Meshuggeneh for Michigan -- All politics is personal -- Whistle while you work -- If you build it, squirrels will come -- We'll be home for Christmas -- Praying for a speedy, uneventful recovery -- When the going got weird -- The five stages of cooking -- Doing the funky chicken -- Life begins the day you start a garden -- Deer me -- The bear necessities -- Summertime, and the living is covered with sunscreen and OFF! -- What brings you to this nape of the neck... Um... Neck of the woods? -- Everything is everything. What is meant to be will be. -- The incredible edible egg -- Hope is the dream of a waking woman -- Back to the garden -- Afterword: Ripley--believe it or not.
Summary "Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she was always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing. When her husband introduces her to the wilds of rural Michigan, Melissa begins to fall back in love with nature. And when work takes them to New York, they find a rustic cottage in the Catskill Mountains to call home. But "rustic" is a generous description for the state of the house, requiring a lot of blood, sweat, and tears for the newlyweds to make habitable. When the pandemic descends on the world, it further nudges Melissa out of the spotlight and into the woods. She trades Botox treatments for DIY projects, power lunching for gardening and raising chickens, and soon her life is rediscovered anew in her own little house in the Catskills"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Gilbert, Melissa, 1964-
Gilbert, Melissa, 1964- -- Homes and haunts.
Television actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Country life -- New York (State) -- Catskill Mountains -- Biography.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Large type books.
Gilbert, Melissa, 1964- (OCoLC)fst00371266
Homes. (OCoLC)fst01353235
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Television actors and actresses. (OCoLC)fst01146641
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Large type books.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Added Author Busfield, Timothy, writer of foreword.
ISBN 9798885781329 (large print) (hardcover)
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