"Path From `Prairie' to AIDS Activist"

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"Path From `Prairie' to AIDS Activist"

USA Today (12/26/91), P. 2D
Jacobs, Michael

Abstract: Actress Alison Arngrim, also known as Nellie Oleson from "Little House on the Prairie," has devoted her life to becoming an AIDS activist. Arngrim said that if there were a contest she would be voted "the least likely person to get involved in any of the things that I've gotten involved in." Arngrim is not simply a celebrity spokesperson; she is employed with Tuesday's Child, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the care of children with AIDS and their families. She is also a hot-line volunteer for AIDS Project Los Angeles. Moreover, she is an unpaid counselor and hosts AIDS Vision on Los Angeles cable TV. It was when her good friend and husband on "Little House," Steve Tracy, contracted HIV and eventually died that Arngrim decided to become an AIDS activist.

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