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The Hometime crew returned to Betsy's house last winter, and once again filmed their work.  DVDs of Episodes 3 and 4 are now available in our online shop

Perched at the top of Center Street in Mankato, Minnesota is a small bench carved from Kasota stone. A bronze plaque reads: “To honor Maud Hart Lovelace, who here began the childhood daydreams that one day would be our window to the past.”

To legions of fans, Center Street is better known as Hill Street, and Mankato, of course, is Deep Valley, the setting for the thirteen books in the Betsy-Tacy series. Using diaries, letters, and her prodigious memory, Maud Hart Lovelace created a fictionalized version of her own growing-up in turn-of-the-last-century Minnesota that is as real to readers today as it was more than 100 years ago.

The Betsy-Tacy Society was founded in 1990 by a group of 12 Mankato-area admirers of Maud Hart Lovelace's life and writing; it now numbers more than 1500 members. The goals of the BTS are:

• To promote and maintain the availability of Mrs. Lovelace's work;
• To advocate for the reissue of any titles not currently in print;
• To preserve existing landmarks and sites associated with the real people and places portrayed in the Betsy-Tacy books; and
• To sustain interest in the lifestyle of the period, with special emphasis on family and women's history.

Please click on the logo above to order any book through Amazon.com, and the BTS will receive a portion of the sale.

2008 Events Calendar

Burn the Mortgage Countdown:
Thanks to
generous donors,
the current mortgage balance is $10,851.87.
Help us reach our goal to pay off the mortgage in 2008!
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How You Can
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News Bolts 
from the Blue

Betsy-Tacy Bake Sale

Maud's Music
of Deep Valley CD

ONLINE CATALOG AND PAYPAL

HELP US KEEP THE BOOKS IN PRINT!

Hometime DVDs are available!

The Naughty Chair