Homesites, Museums and Attractions

The different homes across America that Laura either wrote about in the Little House series or lived in after she married Almanzo Wilder, as well as the museums and events that commemorate them.

Walnut Grove’s Making a Classroom Cookbook

Nicole Elzenga, Collections Manager at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, tells Beyond Little House that the museum is working on another cookbook to add to their collection.  (“Tastes of Plum Creek: Volume II” was published in 2005 and is still currently available in the Walnut Grove gift store and online.)
The Walnut Grove

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Nancy Westlake of Hoover Library Honored

Nancy Westlake of Hoover Library Honored

Hoover Presidential Library volunteer Nancy Westlake wrote Laura lesson plans and won national award.

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All of De Smet United In New Web Site Venture

De Smet’s attractions support one another in a joint web site promoting the town … precisely what every Laura fan would love to see.

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Blizzard Warnings in Minnesota–Again

Right now, I feel a good deal like Florence Garland did in 1880:
“Miss Garland was thinking and biting her lip. She could not decide to dismiss school because of a storm, but this storm frightened her.
“‘I ought to tell her what to do,’ Laura thought. But she could not think what to do. It was

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Little House in Court: What Happened?

Little House in Court: What Happened?

Friendly Family Productions and the Little House on the Prairie homesite have reached an agreement regarding a lawsuit filed in 2008.

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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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