Stepping back to 1946, McLaughlin portrays Bess Streeter Aldrich in period attire.
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Stepping back to 1946, McLaughlin portrays Bess Streeter Aldrich in period attire. Mrs. Aldrich was born in Iowa but lived her adult life in Elmwood, Nebraska, where she wrote and published 160 short stories and 13 books. Readers of all ages can relate to her wholesome stories and also learn from her entertaining and historically accurate novels of bygone days. Mrs. Aldrich was one of the highest paid and most read authors of her time. Seven of her novels were best sellers. McLaughlin tells about Mrs. Aldrich’s life journeys, joys, successes and heartaches using Mrs. Aldrich’s own words the majority of the talk. At the conclusion, McLaughlin steps out of character and tells the rest of the story, facts that Mrs. Aldrich would be too humble to mention.