Caddie Woodlawn
Mary Ellen Brue, our great friend in Baldwin, Wisconsin.
Mary Ellen brings history to life with her dramatization of her great-great grandmother, who was Caddie Woodlawn's teacher. She gave us a performance of her play when we visited Mary Ellen and Don Brue in their home. Mary Ellen provides information about the "real" people in the book about Caddie Woodlawn. This is also information about the pioneer people in Wisconsin.
Who was then Caddie Woodlawn. Well, the book "Caddie Woodlawn" reminds many Wisconsin-people about when they were children. It has been a young adult fiction classics for at least three generations, a book about the very first settlers on the western Wisconsin frontier from about 1863 to 1866.