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By Cheryl Whitlock on April 23, 2009
For themselves, they decided to buy a present together, something they could both use and enjoy. After much studying of Montgomery Ward’s catalogue, they chose to get a set of glassware. They needed it for the table and there was such a pretty set advertised, a sugar bowl, spoon-holder, butter dish, six sauce dishes, and
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Posted in LIW-Related Items, Mansfield, Research, The First Four Years | Tagged Cheryl |
By Sandra Hume on April 21, 2009
Now everyone’s favorite brown-eyed Laura Ingalls, Melissa Gilbert, is tweeting over at Twitter. Find her at @MelissaEGilbert, where she posts about her dogs, the entertainment industry, her family, her post-forty expanding buttocks, and anything else that strikes her fancy. She also answers questions Twittered to her about Little House on the Prairie, her upcoming book, and her family.
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Posted in Television series -- Little House on the Prairie | Tagged Alison Arngrim, Melissa Gilbert, Sandra |
By Amy Lauters on April 20, 2009
Over the weekend I had an opportunity to go to a citywide garage sale in New Ulm, Minn., about half-way between Mankato and Sleepy Eye. I had my eye out for some household goods I need to outfit a second guest room, and thought it would be a perfect spot. Imagine my surprise when I
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Posted in LIW-Related Items, The Long Winter, Walnut Grove | Tagged Amy |
By Laura Ingalls Wilder on April 19, 2009
…It is necessary that we dream now and then. No one ever achieved anything, from the smallest object to the greatest, unless the dream was dreamed first, yet those who stop at dreaming never accomplish anything. We must first see the vision in order to realize it; we must have the ideal or we cannot
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By Laura Welser on April 18, 2009
When I first heard about the Little House musical that was going to be performed at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I thought that I would really love to go. I am not much of a traveler, but I really wanted to see it. My husband was willing to go. Well, okay, he agreed
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Posted in De Smet -- Ingalls Homestead, De Smet -- LIWMS, Homesites, Museums and Attractions, Walnut Grove | Tagged Homesite Vacations, Laura Welser |
By Jonni Craven on April 17, 2009
Ever since I was a little girl I’ve always tried to find a way to bring my interests into my daily life. It may have been wearing my hair like one of the Brady Bunch, convincing my mother that I needed that Partridge Family purse (which I was too embarrassed to wear in public, sorry
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By Rebecca Brammer on April 16, 2009
The year was 1993, and my family was making its first-ever journey in the covered wagon minivan across the American Midwest to visit the Little House sites. I will never forget the thrill of excitement I experienced on that first trip, as the images formed in my mind over the years from Laura’s descriptions in
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Posted in On the Banks of Plum Creek, Walnut Grove | Tagged Homesite Vacations, Rebecca |
By Cheryl Whitlock on April 15, 2009
I will be submitting more letters written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, to Beyond Little House in the next few weeks. It is a real treat reading these letters from the Rose Wilder Lane papers at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa. The following excerpt is from an
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Posted in By The Shores of Silver Lake, Research, Rose Wilder Lane, Walnut Grove | Tagged Cheryl |
By Sandra Hume on April 14, 2009
Sometimes I like to comb the Web for what else is out there about Laura Ingalls Wilder. It’s always eye-opening to see just how many lives Laura and her books have touched. And the Internet puts it all at your fingertips. Like this blog post was recently written by children’s history book author, educational book
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Posted in LIW-Related Items, Mansfield, On the Banks of Plum Creek, Research | Tagged Sandra |
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