When the Mari Sandoz High Plains Center opens in Chadron, Nebraska in 2001, it will be one of three centers at which Nebraska honors its outstanding writers. Through the compilation of over 200 images
Merry Mari was written by Celia Siiri Laakso Hoyt as a loving tribute to her mother, Maria Sofia Kankäänpää Laakso, after she died in 1986. This story is based on Maria’s childhood and shows what it m