Dean Butler helps to preserve Almanzo Wilder's boyhood home
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Almanzo Wilder, whose boyhood inspired his wife Laura Ingalls Wilder to write the book "Farmer Boy," grew up in Malone, New York. The actor known for portraying Almanzo on the NBC TV series "Little House on the Prairie" often pays a visit to the farm, to make sure the property is respected and in good repair. almanzowilderfarm.com
This "Spotlight" segment is produced by Paul Larson, and premiered on the program Mountain Lake Journal. Videography by Will Houle and Ben Carstens of Local 44. "Spotlight" is made possible, in part, by the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, dedicated to improving the quality of life for year-round residents of the Adirondack Park. www.pearsallfoundation.org
Spotlight is also supported by Hill & Hollow Music. hillandhollowmusic.org
That permanent smile on his face is infectious. What a nice, good man.
How wonderful of him to give back like this. So much respect.
Farmer Boy has always been my favorite book in the series.
What a lovely guy.Michael Landon would be so proud!!🌷
wow, what a wonderful man Mr. Butler is to keep the Wilder's and Little House story, memories and now the homestead a land mark alive. Hope he has much success in this endeavor.
My bucket list to go... and I live in Indonesia! :'(
Love Love Love our "Manly". What a wonderful thing your doing! Fascinating life story of the Wilder's. Thank you for such an extraordinary series "Little House On The Prairie". My favorite all time series 💗
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It seems fitting that Dean Butler would be preserving the Wilder farm. He's a good actor and great man. I have to go there someday.
He's only doing it for the money. He thinks he's better than anybody else.
@@kevinandrews3323 that's rather negative. You don't think a person can love and appreciate something? Perhaps you are judging others buy yourself.
Vraiment langue de jaloux c'est horrible ..vous avez ratez vôtre vie pour etre jaloux et médisant à ce point...c'est sûr. 🙏!@@kevinandrews3323
Dean Butler has been an ambassador to the legacy of Little House on the Prairie. He's also helped keep Michael Landon's LHOP legacy alive. Great guy.
God bless you Dean for saving our American heritage.
I was blown away hearing Laura's voice!!
Dean Butler, thank you for preserving something that has touched your very soul. America and the world thanks you!
He still has that wonderful smile. So glad to see that he is committed to the preservation of this place. Such a huge part of our growing up!
This is what good people do with their celebrity. Love this. :)
Thank you Dean Butler for all you do to keep our American History as it should be!!!
Dean seems so happy and I'm happy to see him enjoying life.
He has aged well.
so awesome. I was totally in love with him as a child. I wanted a man like that to marry...lol
Same here.I was madly in love with "Manly".
... and I hope you did find someone like him. ❤️
Jennifer Showalter Me too!!!!
Wasn't my very 1st TV crush but I definitely had a BIG crush on him.
Jennifer Showalter girl who you telling lol!!
He has a purpose so he'll probably live a long life, a class act.
I love that little red house
So pleased that Dean Butler is so involved and committed. I always loved his character in the tv series as a young girl. I have the entire collection of Little House books and would love for him to sign them. :-)
I would love him to sign my Farmer boy book
It's blown my mind hearing laura speak, what a shame she didn't do an interview, she'd never beleave how famous she'd be all over the world. ..
In reading numerous biographies of her, Laura was shy in public which continued into adulthood. If you listen closely, her interview seems to be scripted, of which there is nothing wrong with that.
@@uscitizen7665 I guess even snippets of a scripted interview is better than nothing, im still trying to imagine a younger voice, i watched the little house series here in UK and was fascinated when i found out there was a real Laura, got every book now 😊🙋♀️
I really like him. He is so sweet and cute.
Imagine, someone from Hollywood who isn't scr*wed up!
hes from canada
I would like to say there are many actors who are not messed up I have had the honor to meet them I have the pleasure to email one and talk by phone to another many times.. Wenesdae Canada is just a hop skip and a jump from here. There are many places along the road you can look over into Canada.
An-T M that is a silly statement. Do you read the newspapers or watch the news...local as well as national? The vast majority of the rapes, murders, pedophile cases, drug cases and other terrible goings on are committed by plain non Hollywood people. The only difference is the publicity factor. There are thousands and thousands of people in the movie business. Families like Ron Howard’s...three generations of actors who have lived their lives, worked hard, stayed married and raised good kids. Guess what? Their stories don’t make the news do they? Nobody makes the news for just getting up and going to work every day, paying the mortgage and going to parents night at school. Stay in the theater at the end of a movie sometime and read all the names of the hundreds of people who worked on it...99% of them unknown to you.
@@clairieannie1 Excellent post.
I had no idea there was a recording of Laura! It blessed my heart to physically hear the voice I have imagined in my mind for all these years
Stacy Stalstone oh my gosh! How did you get to hear it?
@@heatherarcher8624 it was in the clip here
swedishgirl666 my bad thanks
That was great
Stacy Stalstone, I know how you feel! I’ve always imagined what Laura’s lovely voice may sound like in real - life. It really warmed my heart to know what it sounded like!! 😄😊
Thank you, Dean! You are great in that role and now at what you’re doing! We are grateful.
He came to visit us in De Smet South Dakota last year and was fantastic to chat with.
Santina Murphy If they want and need donations, it does not make sense that they would insult their potential supporters.
There is a church there that Pa Ingles help build. It is still being used as a very active church.⛪⛪
TaylorLynn donuts_deadlifts_daddyissues must be neat to live there and so much history of your town in Laura’s books. Always wondered how the people of De Smet felt when they were totally left out of the tv series. Especially since the last five books of her series centered in De Smet
Where is it located?
So cool that he is involved and interested. good on ya Dean Butler.
God bless Michael Landon for giving the world this wonderful legacy. It’s a shame he didn’t live long enough to see the enduring impact that Little House has had on the entire world.
Michael Landon did not give the world the legacy of The Little House legacy......Laura Ingalls Wilder gave the world that legacy.....Michael Landon gave the world a Hollywood version of said legacy, a version that does not follow the stories told in the book series but very little....
kevin williams Sounds like you need to troll a political forum.
@@SteviePaints sounds like you need to go to a library and pick up a book......lol...
He knew. He said that years later people would still be watching Little House on the Prairie. He knew it was a great show. And we are!
@@kevinwilliams9190 So what if the show was made up. It was only "based on" the books. Why all the TV show haters?
Mr Butler,
What a great job. A true historian and humble appreciation of what he has been given by his work. Much respect.
Omg...this made me so so happy. My family adores little house, and to see Dean so involved is amazing and heart warming. He’s very special. Just like all the cast of that wonderful show. Bonnet head for life!
We were bugged to death everytime someone said 'Almonzo' instead of 'Almanzo'! I am glad he told the story behind that.
Dean's a very nice person! God bless him 💙
Dean Butler seems like such a nice guy, and it's wonderful that he cares so much about the Wilder homestead; it's almost like he has a spiritual connection to the real Almanzo.
Some people still understand what's really important in this world. God bless this man.
I am reading the books to my young daughter and as I do I am gaining a whole new appreciation for the life and authorship of Laura Wilder. I love history of the American Frontier and I hope we continue to pass it down.
God bless you Dean!!
Thank GOD for u dean Butler.i loved those books and anything to do with laura ingalls wilder.
My 5th grade teacher read the whole set to us.oh they were good.and still are.i have the set myself and other books.
This is so cool its 2019, I watch little house every day.
Lol me too!!
Me too
This is amazing and awsome and humbling !!
Thank you, Dean, for preserving the Wilder Home in New York.
Such an interesting look at Wilder's boyhood home and how they are preserving it. Amazing how interest in this beloved series and the books is still a favorite of so many children and adults. Thank you, Paul Larson!
I started watching LH back in the 70's from the first episode I was hooked and never missed a show .this show helped me with the grief I felt after losing my mama ,it gave me something to look forward to every week .💕
I have a feeling Almanzo, Laura and Rose would be delighted to know their family's tales helped you with such a difficult event.
LHOP was NBC’s answer to CBS’s The Walton’s.
Farmer Boy was actually my favorite book.
I could watch Little House everyday. I'm so pleased that you took to preserving and teaching about Mr. Wilder's early days, Mr. Butler. Thank you
I really liked your character on The Little House...
Good for him!! So great that he's giving back
Laura Ingalls Wilder was my distant cousin
Good for Dean Butler. It just shows that Dean Butler just wasn't just interested in little house tv show.
He's such a nice guy
He’s cute and nice
I love 'Manly' so good to see the home. Dean still looks the same. I will go see this farm some day.
That's great he was always great on the show and I'm so happy that the house is still standing
All children should be brought up on The Little House on the Prairie and the world would be sooo much better.
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What a treasure Dean Butler is, and for him to preserve this iconic piece America's history benefits us culturally and from a historical perspective.
So good Almanzo !😘😘😘
I hope to go there someday! I got to visit Almanzo and Laura’s house in Mansfield. Loved it! Got to see the writing desk where she wrote the Little House books and Pa’s fiddle. I have all the Little House books and I watch Little House almost every day.
Shannon Turney wow, I'll have to check that out! I was so upset when they blew up 'Walnut Grove'... Can you imagine what an awesome tourist destination that could have been??
Lorraine Hall oh I know right!! Would’ve been a great place to visit!!!
Did you go to the cemetery and visit their graves? Laura, Almanzo and Rose are all buried there. We went there after touring the home and museum. It is a WONDERFUL place!
@@agemoth The Walnut Grove on TV was just a studio set. The Ingalls actually didn't live in the real Walnut Grove very long. Most of the things that happened later in the TV show, like meeting Almonzo happened in DeSmet. Like anything.... the books are the books and tv and movies are their own thing.... and twain the two shall meet.
I saw the Mansfield MO house too. As well as the De smet SD one and the walnut grove MN one!
Almanzo is still handsome!!!
Little House on the Prairie was one of my favorite shows, along with the Walton's, we were treated with wholesome entertainment.
I want to visit the farm 😊😊😊
Didn't know this place existed.
Wow that is awesome
I can't believe there's a recording of Laura's voice. That's awesome.
We here in Reading, PA have our own "Little House" TV show tie--Lucy Lee Flippen. She is a descendant of its publisher, William S. Flippin.
And she was born in Phila!
I can still hear mrs olsen say his name! lolol
zaldomo zaldomo
And the old man that helped with the blind school.
Manzee manzee
Think it was Alamanzee
Sylvia Turner yes yes that was it lol.
i just watched the episode.
Sylvia Turner lmaoooo Almanzee I’m dead
God Bless You Dean Butler... Thank You for your contribution in keeping Manly’s legacy alive to bless so many others.♥️
How Wonderful!
RE: the pronunciation of his name, I can imagine Eliza deciding that "Al-mahn-zo" was a more "proper" way to say the name. If you remember in the books, she put on airs re: tea after going to the boarding school in Malone. Very interesting video, I did not know the homestead was still standing.
I love this man's characteristics. He is sincere.
This video makes me want to read ALL the Little House books again! 😊
Thank you Dean. You have helped keep these treasures memories alive for so many of us & those yet to be born.
3 thumbs down?? Who could not like this?
I got to meet him and some of the cast of "Little House" when they came to Tucson to film the Christmas movie for the show. I wish he'd been at Rocky Ridge when we got to go and visit years later.
Great guy
I think Almanzo had great courage! He and Laura seemed to be an excellent match. I’ve been to Mansfield, MO, but would love to see Almanzo’s home. Dean Butler is a blessing to history!
We just bought the complete season of Little House on the Prairie just last winter and have watched the entire set already.
Loved all actors and actresses. He’s still so young looking 👏👏😊😊
#FYI The TV Series "Little House on the Prairie" was a favorite Program of Pres. Ronald Reagan
And my favorite too. Dave Minnesota
I love the actors from the series help the historic sites and help keep preserve the memory of the real Ingalls and wilder families. I honestly hated...hated the series because it's so inaccurate it's cringy...but if it gets people to read Lauras books and learn the real story that's amazing
Ditto
Kevin Eaton - That is exactly what it did for me 😉 So, I wouldn’t hate the series, as I am sure it did that for many. I had never heard of the books. Keep the ‘amazing’ aspect in your heart 😀 ❤️
@rach d Yes, I have a great book about Laura and quite a few changes were made, for instance she never mentions that she had a little brother who died, or the year or so they lived in Iowa I believe. What is so great about the books , though, is their historical authenticity. They accurately reflect the values of the times, how people talked and thought and behaved. That, to me is the greatest flaw of the tv series. I can accept that they added characters and had all kinds of things happen that didn't.. that is tv. What I really hated though was the way they changed the characters.They did not behave at all as people would have in those days, certainly not as Laura described them or others writing about the same period. They were just 20th century people in costumes. For one example in many, Pa would never have cried like he did in so many episodes. Men just did not do that. They hardly do now, think of back then! Even women were ashamed to cry. Ma was always saying " For shame!" When Laura let a tear escape. She used to squeeze her face hard so nobody would see she was crying. She said " For shame!" to little Grace for crying. I know it was the 70's, I was 17 when it came out, but it bothered me then as well. I wanted to see the characters as I knew them from the books. As it was, it was soppy and sentimental and so lacking in authenticity I could hardly bear it. I watched many episodes because the kids I babysat did, so I had little choice, but I spent most of the time fuming!
@rach d There is a whole series of books about Rose that my daughter and I enjoyed reading together. Of course they are mostly fiction, but the author was a friend of Rose (actually the last books wriťten by his daughter after his death) and he said they are based on stories she told him. Like the Laura books, they are at least historically authentic, and reflect the times, which are changing rapidly from the world Laura knew. In the second to the last one she goes to live for a while with her Auntt Eliza, who seems to have been quite a cool, modern woman, a suffragette, for one thing, and had quite an influence on Rose 's life. It took my daughter and I a while to warm up to her though as she was so horrible to Laura in Little Town!
@rach d Oh yes there are some still available. We have only the first Caroline book. How are the others, I think about Martha and Charlotte? We were thinking of getting some.
I loved Farmer Boy! My favorite episode was the sheep shearing. Almanzo's job was to carry the fleeces to the storage area. The others were teasing him that they would finish (shearing the sheep) before he finished. So when they took a break, he sneaked an unsheared sheep over to the storage area, and got the last laugh on them. I want to visit the Wilder home one day. I can see it all very clearly, just from the wonderful descriptions in the book.
I just told the same story from the book last week!
Thank you Mr. Butler.
I loved this show and Manly was one of my favs on it....loved Mrs Olsen too. This is a great project.
I've been there and would hate to see additional buildings on the property. As it is now is how it was when Almanzo was a boy. It is easy to picture his life there. Additional buildings would destroy that element of the site.
My fifth grade teacher introduced us to Laura's books.i can still see her reading every afternoon to us.i was in the fifth grade at Dalton city school,illinois
You should include a link for donations in the synopsis!!
I wonder if their are still descendants of Almanzo Wilder still around..
He just had one child, Rose. She didn't bear any children so his direct line ended with her. There would be relatives through his siblings' children though.
@@selehadhew9591 they had two, their son died!
@@swedishgirl666 Oh yes of course, I totally forgot! He passed away before they could name him.
What a wonderful film tribute. Hope the farm is preserved
It would be so nice to see a Dean and Melissa get together for a story about Laura and Almanzo’s later years together with daughter Rose.
What amazing guy
God Bless You Dean Butler You are a PRECIOUS man!
I LOVE ALMANZO....
Mrs Olsen ...Aldommo ...Mr Edwards..Alamanzie...lol
Biggest writing booboo on Little House was Albert...they have him die of leukemia as a teen, then another episode he becomes a Doctor
MJs Smile Yep! At the end of the morphine episodes, they say he became a doctor..
Then he ends up dying before that can happen!
Very handsome Dean Butler
Wow, they’re actually pronouncing Almanzo right for once! He was a very sweet kid, Farmer Boy always really appealed to me.
Edit: yep...I got to the part about the pronunciation. 😆
What a star he is. I hope at some point I can come over to visit from East London UK. Your doing amazing Dean. 👏
Banning the books from Schools? WHY?
they say they are racest
Because of the way Laura wrote about how Ma felt about Indians.
@Tracy Lands It is sad. At the bookstore I worked at we did a wonderful thing for banned books week. We took all the books that were on the list, and displayed them in the window to encourage people to read them. Banning books should be a sin!
Zaldamo 😁
Melissa Geiger, and what about “Alamanzie” (Houston) 😂
Sandy Rice hahahaha, I remember both well! 😂😂😂
It's crazy because he doesn't get any royalties (I guess that is what it's called) from reruns of this from when he was on. They didn't start to pay actors for their work til much later. I bet everyone already knew that....I just am wowed that all the money for this is going to keep this little Almanzo house going and he doesn't keep any of it.
Dean seems like a sweetheart. I always loved him in that role.
Dean Butler hadn't changed a bit.. he's so humble just like the way he looks..continued keeping the story of the Wilder's alive forever..keep up the fight Dean!
Beautiful story. Thanks guys for what you are doing.
Oh My GOsh.This is a wonderful video:-):-D Dean Butler is very kind.:-):-D
What a nice man.
I actually would not mind if a forward and, or, foot notes were added to Laura's books for historical clarification of social and racial attitudes of those times, that we do not find acceptable today. That way Laura's work is preserved and proper respect for others is taught.
WOW!!! I was so impressed by the end of this video that Dean Butler has taken an interest in the Wilder Farm. I can’t help but feel that Almanzo would have approved of and endorsed Dean’s willingness to help such a worthy cause 😊❤️
I don't understand why people are so upset because Almanzo's name was mispronounced on the series. Nothing about the show was true to the books. It was clearly more a vehicle for Michael Landon's ego than a history lesson.
It’s nice to see someone who is working to protect our American heritage and history instead of trying to demean it or erase it. I grew up on the Little House books and still cherish those stories.