The Betsy-Tacy Society Home Page

“It was difficult, later, to think of a time when Betsy and Tacy had not been friends.”

~Betsy-Tacy~
Maud Hart Lovelace

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.

2006 Events Calendar

Lorna Landvik at Deep Valley Book Festival November 11

HELP US KEEP THE BOOKS IN PRINT!

Silk Stocking District Stroll on 9/30

Halloween Party 10/28

Hometime DVDs are available!

Betsy-Tacy Drawing Contest Winners

News Bolts
from the Blue

On sale for a limited time!

The Immortal Trio
by Cheryl Harness

The Naughty Chair

The Betsy-Tacy Society
P.O. Box 94
Mankato MN 56002-0094
507-345-9777
Lenski/Neville art used by permission of HarperCollins
BTS logo by Cheryl Harness