This post on the Pioneer Girl blog leads us to a long, fascinating online article on the Hopp family, as in Jake Hopp, the name-card printer at De Smet.
And I know I’m late to this party — it was written in 1982 — but I loved this detailed account of Mary Ingalls’ stay at the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School. It’s called “The Mary Ingalls Era,” and it was written by Dorothy Petrucci O’Leary and Catherine Goddard. (Note: Link takes you to a PDF.)
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