Beyond Little House » Burr Oak http://beyondlittlehouse.com America's most comprehensive site dedicated to the life, literature, and many homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:40:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Video of Day 1 http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2010/07/14/video-of-day-1/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2010/07/14/video-of-day-1/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:27:17 +0000 Sarah Uthoff http://beyondlittlehouse.com/?p=3794 This is kind of rough footage, but I think it will give you a feel for what it’s like to be at the conference and hopefully you’ll want to come next time.

Laurapalooza Trip Day 1

This video covers Day 1 of my Laurapalooza Trip – July 13, 2010. It covers Decorah, Iowa, the owner of Hart’s Tea and Tarts tea shop, Burr Oak, Iowa, Ferneva Brimacomb (former director of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum in Burr Oak), and Spring Valley, Minnesota.

Read my And One More On the Way post about Decorah here:

http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2010/06/20/one-more-decorah-iowa

Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum in Burr Oak, Iowa

http://www.lauraingallswilder.us

Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Spring Valley, Minnesota

http://www.springvalleymnmuseum.org

Sarah S. Uthoff blogs at TrundleBed Tales; look for her on Twitter and YouTube.

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Lake Pepin Beach

A women’s club named the Farmgirls has decided to do a Laura trip/service project. It started with one chapter, but grew to include members from multiple groups. They are doing a link of the entire Laura homesite  loop, but they aren’t just visiting the Laura sites. Instead they are doing a volunteer  project to help the organization at each one. Some people are making the entire loop. Others are just going to visit a few of the stops.

They are keeping a blog of their experiences here:

http://farmgirlsontheloose.blogspot.com

Read news stories below -

Walnut Grove Stop:

http://marshallindependent.com/page/content.detail/id/517220.html?nav=5015

De Smet Stop:

http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100608/COLUMNISTS0113/6080304/Callison-Farmgirls-on-the-Loose-

Sarah S. Uthoff,  http://www.trundlebedtales.com

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Journey of a Pioneer Family at Los Rios Rancho in Oak Glen, California. May 30-31, 10 am – 4 pm. Features an exhibit on loan from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum in Mansfield, Missouri, as well as wagon rides, butter churning, and pioneer crafts and games.

Prairie Days at the Little House on the Prairie homesite in Wayside, Kansas.  June 13, 10 am – 3 pm. Music, food, wagon rides, exhibitors, and more.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Days at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum in Burr Oak, Iowa. June 27,-28.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Days at Old World Wisconsin in Eagle, Wisconsin. July 25-26, 10 am – 5 pm. Watch this video for more details.

If you plan to attend any of these events and would like to write up your experience afterward for this blog, please contact us at beyondlittlehouse @ gmail.com. Thank you!

]]> http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2009/05/27/upcoming-events/feed/ 0 For Those of Us With Boys … http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2009/05/12/for-those-of-us-with-boys/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2009/05/12/for-those-of-us-with-boys/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 11:47:18 +0000 Sandra Hume http://www.beyondlittlehouse.com/?p=975 I do have a daughter, but she’s an independent, think-for-yourself kind of girl, and the fact that I have mildly suggested she read On the Banks of Plum Creek (we’ve read the first two together) before we go to Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota this summer has pretty much made her determined to not even glance at a page. (Though recently, after endless suggestions from her father and me, she did finally pick up Encyclopedia Brown, which she adored just as we’d predicted, and which hopefully proved to her that Mom and Dad do know a thing or two about good books sometimes. But I digress.)

So with my current lack of female interest in the Little House series on the female side of my family, I was especially gratified to come across this story about a mother and her sons traveling to Pepin, Walnut Grove, De Smet — and even Burr Oak. She weaves in boy-only commentary throughout her travelogue, which makes for an interesting twist.

The photo slideshow to the story is here on the website for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, which is where the story first appeared this past weekend. The print version will appear online tomorrow.

Hmmm, maybe I’ll ask my daughter to read this story?

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