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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pepin the Short (1192 words) |
 | Pepin and his older brother Carloman were taught by the monks of St. Denis, and the impressions received during their monastic education had a controlling influence upon the relations of both princes to the Church. |
| Pepin's activity in war was accompanied by a widely extended activity in the internal affairs of the Frankish kingdom, his main object being the reform of legislation and internal affairs, especially of ecclesiastical conditions. |
| Pepin's policy marked out the tasks to which Charlemagne devoted himself: quieting the Saxons, the subjection of the duchies and lastly, the regulation of the ecclesiastical question and with it that of Italy. |
| MVP - Mississippi Valley (1010 words) |
| Pepin is a quiet, bustling village of approximately 900 residents. |
| Pepin began to grow steadily along the shoreline and inland toward the bluffs as it benefited from a booming lumber industry that was harvesting Wisconsin and Minnesota's immense stands of White Pine. |
| Her days in Pepin are recounted in the book "Little House in the Big Woods." She is honored by a museum in the village and a reconstructed cabin at her birth site, just seven miles north of Pepin on County Road CC. |
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