‘A Prairie Little Christmas’ – A two-day Event For Corsicana

By Ashley Morgan

If you don’t know about the upcoming event ‘A Prairie Little Christmas’, you’re missing out. This event is a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet and greet the cast of The Little House on the Prairie show first aired on March 30, 1974. At the event will be LHOP merchandise including the very popular books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder based on her childhood and adolescence in the American Midwest between 1870-1894. Eight of her novels were completed by Wilder and published by Harper & Brothers in the 1930s and 1940s. Other books include the 9th and 10th book (her diary), spin-offs, anime, cookbooks, and more.

The Prairie Christmas Dinner will be on December 2nd at 7pm located at the Corsicana Opry and will feature cast member questions and answers with special stories and Christmas memories. The tickets will be $150 and limited to 200 guests. Food will be prepared by Opry Chef James Miller and will be good, old-fashioned meals. Dinner will include turkey, glazed ham, cornbread dressing, honey butter carrots, and more. Sunday, December 3rd will be the VIP breakfast including pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, fruit, cottage potatoes, biscuits and gravy, and more at the Opry beginning at 8:30am, tickets are $100 and limited to 165 guests.

Both days the cast will be at the Corsicana Pioneer Village from 10am to 4pm. Tickets for the Pioneer Village cast member meet and greet will be $10 for adults and $5 for children. The Pioneer Village will be decorated for the holidays and food trucks will be available. All tickets are available on https://www.eventbrite.com, search for Prairie Christmas-Corsicana, Texas. Mayor Mike Fletcher and wife will be in attendance both days to welcome the cast members to Corsicana.

“Corsicana Mayor Mike Fletcher and wife DeAnn are the reason the cast are coming to Texas,” said Jack Bishop. This will be the first Texas event the Little House on the Prairie will attend, and they are thrilled to be coming to historic Corsicana. The Fletchers have been watching The Little House on the Prairie since the beginning and are huge fans of the show, cast members, and they love to travel to the events.

They met Wendi Lou Lee (Baby Grace) when they attended the Little House on the Prairie Picker’s Market in Mansfield, Missouri. They’ve attended other LHOP events in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, De Smet, South Dakota, Mountain Home, Arkansas and plan to attend the 50th anniversary event coming up in 2024.

Sponsors for the Corsicana event include the City of Corsicana, Collin St. Bakery, The Opry, and Pioneer Village. Special thanks go out to Gravel Roads Markets, LLC Executive Producer Jack Bishop, City Manager Connie Standridge, Pioneer Village Curator Debra Miller, Corsicana Opry owner Carolyn McCombs, Parks & Recreation Director Sharla Allen, Press Susan Wilson, Main Street Director Amy Tidwell and all others who helped decorate and pull this event together.

Gravel Roads Markets have been producing nostalgic cast events all over the country for the past eight years, and the LHOP and the Walton’s for the past two years. They also host events for the Dukes of Hazzard, Grease, murder mystery dinners and riverboat dinner cruises.

LHOP cast members attending A Prairie Little Christmas will be Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson), Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder), Wendi Lou Lee (Grace Ingalls), Charlotte Stewart (Miss Beadle), Pamela Roylance (Sarah Carter), and Jennifer Donati (Baby Rose Wilder).

You won’t want to miss this once in a lifetime event in small town Corsicana, it “honors the author who lived through history and the people who built America,” said DeAnn Fletcher.

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