The highlight of this year’s convention-besides shopping for Betsy-Tacy swag, of course-was the keynote address on the convention’s final morning by another prolific author, beloved by today’s generation of girls: Meg Cabot ( The Princess Diaries), who has been a huge fan of the Betsy-Tacy books since she first read them at age 30.Ĭabot wrote the foreword to one of the three reissues of the Betsy Tacy high school books, which feature two novels in each volume and will be released on September 29 by HarperCollins. The 2009 Betsy-Tacy Convention, which drew just over 200 attendees, took place July 17-20. This year’s convention marks the fifth time the members of the Betsy-Tacy Society have met in the real-life Deep Valley-Mankato. Since 1992, the Betsy-Tacy Society has gathered every three years to celebrate Lovelace’s life and work. Both houses have been restored to their original charm by the Betsy-Tacy Society, a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 to preserve the legacy of Lovelace and her writings, especially the Betsy-Tacy Books.
It stands across the street from Lovelace’s real-life home, Betsy’s House. Actually, Tacy’s House is the real-life home of Lovelace’s best friend, Frances “Bick” Kenney.
This is the house in Mankato that Tacy would have lived in, that is, if she could walk out of the pages of the books and into our world. The series has been beloved by generations of readers for more than 60 years. The series of 13 books about two girls named Betsy and Tacy, who live in the 1900s in a town called Deep Valley, are a celebration of turn-of-the-century smalltown life, family traditions, and enduring friendships. The Betsy-Tacy children’s books were written between 19 by Maud Hart Lovelace, a resident of Mankato, Minn., a small city located in a rural area of the state famed as much for the blue tint of its rich soil as for being home to some of the country’s most respected children’s educational publishers.
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