"Laura was too excited to speak. She squeezed Mary's hand tighter and tighter, and she looked up at Ma, wanting so much to know what that was. Ma smiled down at her and answered, "That is a Christmas tree, girls. Do you think it's pretty?"

-From On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Who better to celebrate the holidays with than Laura Ingalls Wilder? Following in a tradition of more than two decades, the Hoover Museum hosted a temporary holiday exhibit - A Little House Christmas - twenty trees decorated in themes from the famous books themselves.

It was particularly appropriate to use trees as the motif to display various holiday themes from these precious books. As Laura herself wrote in "On the Banks of Plum Creek", she was stunned by the beauty of her first tree. This past exhibit featured twenty such trees decorated with ornaments that highlight life on the frontier.