Little House on the Prairie: Laura had me at the hat

There's been a short CiB hiatus while I attended an important family event, but now we are back in business with very important TV-watching The Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder are a phenomenon: always in print, beloved by generations of young people. Then came a legendary TV series in the 1970s and the 1980s: 10 years, hundreds of episodes, forever being re-discovered -…