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• Melissa Sue Anderson will be coming out with a book, titled "Growing Up Mary: A Memoir of Little House on the Prairie" with a release date of June 15, 2010. It is available for pre-order on Amazon.com

• Merchandise from Little House on the Prairie: A New Musical is available at the Playbill Store.

• Review of Little House on the Prairie: A New Musical at the TPAC on Broadwayworld.com

Robert Alden (more often referred to as "Reverend Alden") is the reverend at the church in Walnut Grove. Prior to becoming a minister, Alden was once a average citizen in Walnut Grove; up until the 1830s when a disaster killed his entire family. Which lead him to be an alcoholic for a time.

After "hearing God's voice" he became a minister, that series events however he seldom told, with the exception of him telling Isaiah Edwards after he lost his family from alcoholism since the death of his son.

Later in life Alden got married to church parishioner Anna Craig, her fate is unknown. Reverend Alden's ministries ended in Walnut Grove in 1901 when the town was destroyed.

Little House on the Prairie was originally a series of nine children's books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder about her life; focusing especially on her childhood years. Since the first book, Little House in the Big Woods, was published in 1932, the series has produced a successful television series that aired on NBC from 1974 to 1983, created by Ed Friendly and Michael Landon (who starred as Charles Ingalls) and also starred Karen Grassle as Caroline.

A six episode miniseries was made in 2004 by Disney, and two television films titled Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the first in 2000 and the second in 2002 were made that starred Richard Thomas of The Waltons fame. Even more recently however, a musical; Little House on the Prairie: A New Musical was made that stars actor Steve Blanchard as Charles and Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura in the original series, as Caroline.