They were living in New York when they decided to retire to California, according to “Orange Blossoms Everywhere.” Remember the fun we had in that one?īetsy and her husband, Joe Willard, were based on Maud and her husband, Delos Lovelace, a newspaperman and fellow author. The series follows them from age 5 into their early 20s, ending with “Betsy’s Wedding.” But you already knew that from my Wednesday column. They start with “Betsy-Tacy,” in which Tacy moves in across the street from Betsy in Deep Valley, Minn. That happened thanks to a Harper Collins editor, Jennifer Hart, herself a fan. Alarmed, fans formed the Betsy-Tacy Society to lobby publishers to bring the books back. They were staples of public and school libraries, where Barrett, Campbell and Keppel discovered them.īy 1990, though, the series had slipped out of print. Published between 19, the 10 books about Betsy Ray and her best friend Tacy Kelly, and their friends and families, were popular with young girls and teenagers. That’s something Betsy-Tacy fans know all too well. Regarding the bench, she said, “we’ll have to get that repainted.” The library appears to have many but not all of the books, and some copies are in disrepair, library managers told me Friday.īarrett told me she would try to schedule an appointment with librarians to check on missing volumes.
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