I’m not writing a post today. Three reasons.
1. Several announcements to make.
2. Not a lot of time.
3. There’s just no way I could follow up that fantabulous post of Sandra’s yesterday.
So I leave you with a list of announcements, and a promise of something more substantial next time.
1. Congratulations to our co-contributor, Amy Mattson Lauters, on the release of her latest book, More Than a Farmer’s Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910-1960. According to the product description, “This investigation of fifty years of farm life reveals that many women saw farming as an opportunity to be full partners with their husbands and considered themselves businesswomen central to the success of their farms.” Hmm… know any farm women of that time period who thought that way? 
I’ll post a full review of the book soon!
2. After all these years, Nellie Oleson is still fighting to keep that “country girl” from showing her up. We’ve announced here before that Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura on the Little House on the Prairie television series, is preparing to go on national tour with the Little House on the Prairie musical playing the role of Ma Ingalls, and has an autobiography coming out next month. Well, leave it to Nellie — or Alison Arngrim, who played her role on the television series. Alison is also going on tour — a Hollywood bus tour, that is — and you can go with her. Alison will share stories about Hollywood celebrities, as well as tales from her own childhood, on this three-hour-tour running several days a week from May through August 2009. And the book? Alison just signed with a publisher to release her own autobiography, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch.
3. Speaking of books, we mustn’t forget about Wendy McClure, who is currently writing The Wilder Life. She blogged this week that she’s looking for “intriguing or hilarious anecdotes about visiting any of the Laura Ingalls Wilder sites.” Have a tale for her? Drop her a line.
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