Cultural Impact

Would Pa Go For A Subprime Mortgage?

Imagine a world where Mr. Edwards was a mortgage broker.

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Partnering with the Betsy-Tacy Society

Betsy-Tacy fans will be well served at LauraPalooza in Mankato, MN this summer.

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Vote for Half Pint

Many of you may be familiar with @HalfPintIngalls and her experiences on the “twittergraph” — and if you’re not, you’ll want to be! Half Pint has been nominated for the Shorty Awards in humor and you can support her by adding your nomination. Be sure to fill in your reason or your nomination won’t count!

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Laura? Laura Wilder? Laura Ingalls Wilder? Mrs. AJ Wilder?

I’ve been doing a lot of writing about Laura lately. On the one side I’m crafting various drafts of a press release about LauraPalooza. On the other, I’m creating reprint articles as well as working on myriad new articles for the next issue of the Homesteader. And I keep running up against the same issue:

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What’s the Best Age to Read the Little House Books?

What’s the best age for a young reader to start reading the Little House books?

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Being Thankful

When Laura shares her feelings of thankfulness with her Missouri Ruralist readers, she makes note of all the things we sometimes don’t take the time to be thankful for, the everyday things to which we never give a thought. Inasmuch as we often regard her family life, as portrayed in her books, as stoic, we

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Stoicism and Guilt: A Counselor's Perspective

It isn’t often I see a new topic of discussion regarding Little House, but today was one of those rare days.
I have seen some discussion — not much — regarding the stoicism of the Ingalls family. Laura speaks of it in letters to her daughter Rose during the writing of the series, and even says

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