Michelle Underwood
Author, historian, and museum guide at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum at Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield, Missouri; author of "Laura Ingalls Wilder's Rocky Ridge Farm: A Detailed Look Behind the Scenes."
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Sep 17, 2026
Sandra HumeHOST
What has been the evolution of that, at least since you've been there? What has been the evolution of that path?
Michelle UnderwoodGUEST
I think it's amazing, for starters, you know, that they actually found that path.
Michelle UnderwoodGUEST
Because I do know that, you know, over time when the farm was sold, you know, and sections were sold out, it had grown up, it had changed.
Michelle UnderwoodGUEST
I often ask the maintenance crew, the maintenance guys and different people, you know, how did this look? You know, how...
Michelle UnderwoodGUEST
How did things happen? So they've been able to kind of share some things with me.
Michelle UnderwoodGUEST
I know that the goal of the association has been to build that the whole area, the whole farm back to the way it looked when the Wilders were there.
Michelle UnderwoodGUEST
You know, the natural state of it, the woods, the farmland, just just all of it.
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