Aldrich House

I would love to have actually visited the museum but we only saw it in passing. I'm a writer and a reader and although I've only read a tiny bit of Aldrich's work (yeah, right before visiting), it's always nice to see where writers get their muse. What I like about Aldrich is her pioneering woman's writing. As a midwest girl all too familiar with great wide open, her work helps me to reminisce even my modern day country life. I like to think if I was born during this time, into the same family, that I too would be writing the same things. Back when writing was encouraged, praised, needed and not replaced with broadcast and technology. Anyway..Bess Streeter Aldrich was one of Nebraska's finest writers and among the ranks of authors like Willa Cather. She recreated in her short stories and novels the ups and downs of small town living in hopes that her readers would understand the hardships and struggles of the times, but also see the virtues and hopes that became a part of these prairie times in the Midwest.