June 2009
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Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Activist?
First, thanks to everyone who listened to my first official radio interview. It was an interesting experience, and I appreciated an interviewer who’d obviously read the book first! Thanks to Sandra, too, for posting the link to the recording of the show.
The interviewer made me think about Laura again, in the context of her work
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On Horses and Oysters
After Sandra referred to Almanzo Wilder as “The Oyster” in her last post, Laura W expressed her curiosity in the comments as to what this was all about. I decided to post the answer rather than reply to Laura as others of you may be curious as well, and it’s an interesting story.
In early 1937,
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Amy on NPR Talking About Her Book!
She tried to be humble about it, slipping it in at the bottom of her post, but I won’t let her get away with that. Beyond Little House’s own Amy Mattson Lauters was on a Wisconsin NPR station today talking about her book, More Than a Farmer’s Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910-1960. Thanks
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Little House Grammar
My daughter started The Long Winter over the weekend. I am keeping quiet and remaining low-key. She has no idea how thrilled I am, which is the only way she’ll finish the series.
She recently completed By The Shores of Silver Lake. That actually took a little while to get into. We forget, as veteran readers,
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Summer Giveaway #2
Do you do anything that is Little House-like? Do you knit? Sew? Butcher your own animals? Make your own cheese? Share it in the comment section and be entered in a drawing for a copy of my book Rose Wilder Lane’s San Francisco. In approximately two weeks I will let the computer at random.org
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Sharing Laura
One of the things I really appreciate about the folks who read, contribute to, and write for this blog is the fact that all of us love to share Laura with others.
I have several nieces and nephews, but I have three nieces who are all at the right age to start reading and appreciating Laura.
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Happy Father's Day
Ma made Pa’s Sunday shirts of calico. He wore a black silk tie, a coat and vest and pants. I can’t describe them. Seems as though all I ever saw of Pa was his face especially his eyes, his whiskers and his hair always standing on end. And too his hands on his violin.
~Laura
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Charles Ingalls: Everyone's Pa
On Mother’s Day weekend, we honored Caroline Ingalls by sharing what we most admired about her, what she had taught us, or the influence she had on our lives.
Now it’s Pa’s turn. Charles Ingalls was dearly loved and respected by his daughter Laura, and it is often said that it was the preservation of his
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Neighbors
Recently I found myself stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire, so I started thinking about Little House. I had plenty of time because in the more than 45 minutes I was there, not one person stopped to help. And that’s why I started thinking about Little House, because I’m pretty sure that
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S.O.S. (Save Our Sites!)
If there’s anything I love as much as the Little House books, it’s the Little House homesites. That should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed this blog or perused the Frontier Girl site. It’s no secret that everything I do in the online Little House world has one ultimate aim: to point
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