The Long Winter, Chapter 11: Pa Goes to Volga
Pa rolls the old chariot along, and Mr. Edwards slips Mary a cool twenty.
Kara Lindsay Takes Leave of Absence from “Little House”
The stage Laura is leaving the “Little House” musical for a few weeks and her understudy will take over.
Issue 16, Winter 2009-2010
What you’ll find in Issue 16 (Winter 2009-2010) of the Homesteader newsletter.
Homesteader’s New Numbering System
The Homesteader newsletter about Laura Ingalls Wilder has changed to a more simplified numbering system.
The Long Winter, Chapter 8: Settled In Town
The Ingalls family heeds the Indian’s warning and sets up shop in town, which means Laura and Carrie have to go to school.
The Long Winter, Chapter 1: Make Hay While the Sun Shines
It’s hot. It’s probably August, though the book doesn’t explicitly say. It’s the summer after the first winter near De Smet—the winter of the Surveyors’ House and the oyster-soup New Year’s dinner—and the Ingalls family is out on the claim. Pa’s cutting prairie grass to make hay for the coming winter’s feed. (And fuel. Wait.
Lauras and Their Picture Windows
Laura pops up in all aspects of my life, it seems. Even in other books.
Right now — that is, when I’m not reading The Long Winter, which I’ll post about in the next day or so — I’m in the middle of a biography of former First Lady Laura Bush. She’s on record as













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