Melissa Sue Anderson, star of ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ speaks of her decision to leave Hollywood for Canada
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How many times has it happened that you think of an old show you used to love watching and wonder what the actors are doing after so many years? I guess many of you that have seen “Little House on the Prairie” and were eager to see each new adventure of the family living on the farm in Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, would love to know what the actors are up to these days.
Those fans who were fond of the actress playing Mary Ingalls, beautiful Melissa Sue Anderson, were convinced she would continue being part of their life through the small screens, but she had other plans.
Today, she speaks of her decision to leave Hollywood behind and move to Canada.
This actress started her acting career playing guest roles, and had her way into the showbiz when she became one of the central figures of “Little House on the Prairie.” Her acting brought her several nominations for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series, and her fans knew she deserved it.
Speaking of her experience filming this drama that made her famous, back in 2010, Anderson told Pop Entertainment, “I’m lucky that there even was a character to play, because in the book, there isn’t much of one. Laura [Ingalls, author of the Little House novels upon which the series was based and the story was centered] was a quite older woman when she wrote the books. She was remembering the best of her life. The characters of Ma and Mary didn’t factor in a lot. There was a lot of Laura and Pa and Laura and Jack the dog and Laura and Mr. Edwards, but there wasn’t a lot of Mary. I’m fortunate that they discovered that I could act.”
She tried herself in other minor roles after Mary Ingalls, but then in 1990 she got married to television producer Michael Sloan and moved to Montreal in 2002 with her husband and their two children, daughter Piper and son Griffin.
In 2007, the family became Canadian citizens and with the new life came new commitments, so Anderson decided to let go of the showbiz because she wanted to spend more time with her kids and didn’t want them to feel pressured to pursue acting careers themselves.
In an interview with E-Talk, Anderson said, “I really stepped away for a long time. That was really for the kids so they would have their own sense of who they were as opposed to being with me.”
However, Anderson didn’t step back from acting completely, but took small roles over the recent years. Her life-changing experience of being part in a series like “Little House on the Prairie” encouraged her to write a memoir titled The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House.
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It’s incredible to consider how sophisticated and technologically advanced children’s toys have become over the years, considering how content we once were with much basic toys. Consider an old-fashioned pair of roller skates. Kids used to get together and go roller skating long before scooters and trick bikes gained popularity. Additionally, if you grew up in the 1950s or 1960s, your conception of roller skates is probably very different from what they look like now.
Roller skating was first popularized by the baby boomers, however it dates back to the mid-1700s. A popular design of roller skates that had a wooden or metal base and leather straps first appeared in the 1950s.
You just stepped onto the skate base while wearing your shoes, if you can still remember using these roller skates. Except for a little toe clamp, the straps went around your ankle, which was virtually the only thing holding your foot in place.
These skates were so much fun and created so many memories. Roller skating was not only a hobby; it was a rite of passage, complete with learning to balance, the thrill of speeding down the pavement with pals, and the occasional injured knee.
Even if today’s youth are accustomed to electric scooters and high-tech devices, there is something unique and endearing about the classic design and simplicity of roller skates. They take us back to a simpler time when we could walk two feet to have fun and life moved more slowly.
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