Ray's famous onion sandwiches-the simpler pleasures of bygone days. Mankato is now the site of annual pilgrimages by Betsy-Tacy readers who yearn to sit on the bench outside of Betsy's and Tacy's houses and to walk up their "Big Hill." Betsy-Tacy fans recreate the Crowd's evenings of singing around the piano and attempt to fix Mr. The Deep Valley of Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy books, based on the author's own hometown of Mankato, Minnesota, in the early years of the twentieth-century, is as idealized an American small town as one can find in children's literature. Diversity in Deep Valley: Encountering the "Other" in the Betsy-Tacy Series Claudia Mills In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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