http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2009/06/29/laura-ingalls-wilder-farm-activist/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed America's most comprehensive site dedicated to the life, literature, and many homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Tue, 22 May 2012 23:02:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2009/06/29/laura-ingalls-wilder-farm-activist/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Connie Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:41:53 +0000 http://www.beyondlittlehouse.com/?p=1197#comment-404 Amy, I was so pleased to get to listen to your interview on the 'streamed' radio. Well done! Some of your experiences and observations of your grandmother are parallel to mine of my maternal Texas grandma and great-grandma, both farm women through and through. The homestead farm of the late 1800s is now sold and the farmhouse is still standing - although very close to imploding. As a child I would go with my mom and grandma on the 3 hour drive down to "the farm" to see Great Grandma Houston and the eldest daughter "Auntie" who had returned to care for her. Emma Holley Houston lived to be 92. The only way that I knew her was without her legs (after falling out of bed in her 70s and breaking both legs, they had been amputated). "Auntie" - Nevada Houston ____? had come back to the farm to care for her invalid mother. My first experiences of gathering eggs, bottle-feeding baby kids, and going after the cows were all at that central Texas farm near Waco in the rocky limestone hills. Thanks for bringing back those memories with your book and little talk on the radio. ;-) Amy, I was so pleased to get to listen to your interview on the ‘streamed’ radio. Well done! Some of your experiences and observations of your grandmother are parallel to mine of my maternal Texas grandma and great-grandma, both farm women through and through. The homestead farm of the late 1800s is now sold and the farmhouse is still standing – although very close to imploding. As a child I would go with my mom and grandma on the 3 hour drive down to “the farm” to see Great Grandma Houston and the eldest daughter “Auntie” who had returned to care for her. Emma Holley Houston lived to be 92. The only way that I knew her was without her legs (after falling out of bed in her 70s and breaking both legs, they had been amputated). “Auntie” – Nevada Houston ____? had come back to the farm to care for her invalid mother. My first experiences of gathering eggs, bottle-feeding baby kids, and going after the cows were all at that central Texas farm near Waco in the rocky limestone hills. Thanks for bringing back those memories with your book and little talk on the radio.

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