August 2009
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Judith Thurman on the Wilder Women
Judith Thurman was interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday about her recent article on the Wilder Women. You can hear it here.
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Whatever Happened to Mary Power?
This question has been a common one over the decades, with not much of an answer available until recent years. Gina Terrana, who has researched the life of Mary Power and published articles on her in the Laura Ingalls Wilder Lore and in The Homesteader, is now offering a print-it-yourself pamphlet including pictures and detailed
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Summer Giveaway #5 Winners
It’s hard to believe that it’s already back-to-school time!! And, time for the results of the last Summer Giveaway (#5). The computer at random.org picked these two lucky winners: Jennie and Amie. Please email [email removed] with your mailing address. Thanks to all who took the time to comment and congratulations to all the winners.
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Little House Traveler
Re-reading Little House Traveler this weekend, I was struck by two particular things: 1. Despite the fact that she presumably had a decent income by the time she made her trip back to South Dakota with Almanzo, Laura was compelled to track her finances in her journal. 2. She and Almanzo were farmers to the
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
What a beautiful world this is! Have you noticed the wonderful coloring of the sky at sunrise? For me there is no time like the early morning, when the spirit of light broods over the earth at its awakening. What glorious colors in the woods these days! Did you ever think that great painters have
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The Prairie is a Dangerous Place
What image comes to your mind when you hear the word prairie? I wonder if sometimes we have a tendency to romanticize our view, choosing to remember Laura’ s vivid descriptions of that large empty flat land with the enormous sky and beautiful lakes and extraordinary sunrises, instead of the truly dangerous place that the
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LauraPalooza 2010 News
Folks, we’ve got some exciting news on the LP 2010 front. First, we’ve confirmed John E. Miller and Pamela Smith Hill as guest speakers. Miller is the author of at least three books and numerous articles about the Wilder-Lane women and their legacies. And Hill recently published the first new biography of Laura in quite
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A Rose in December
All this talk about Rose has again made me reflect on her life. Since I am, indeed, in the researching-and-writing stage of working on a biography of Rose, it’s not hard for me to settle in to thinking about her. As a woman, Rose seemed tense, conflicted, inwardly struggling with depression and outwardly maintaining the
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Why Little House is Purple
I like purple. I like it a lot. It’s my favorite color, in fact. I remember when I first learned how purple came to be. During those carefree childhood days of summer, my grandparents kept all of us kids well supplied with freeze pops. My cousin and I would each eat half of our popsicle,
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Rose Wilder Lane … Who Knew?
Well, we did. But apparently, now that the venerable New Yorker has run an article about Rose and Laura–containing no new information, and just a lot of commentary based on recycled sources–cyberspace is whirling with debate about Rose’s politics, the expressed values in the Little House series, and even Christian doctrine as expressed in the
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