LauraPalooza 2010 Schedule

Please note that everything below is subject to change.

THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2010

Registration Table Open All Day, from 8:30 AM – 7:30 PM

Opening Remarks – Amy Mattson Lauters, Conference Chair

Presentation: My Life as Laura Ingalls Wilder – Kelly Ferguson

Presentation: The “Other” Laura Ingalls Wilder: Journalist, Philosopher, Poet – Ann Weller Dahl

Presentation: Looking for Laura: Place, Memory, and the Authentic “Little House” – Michelle McClellan

Pa’s Music and Laura’s Memory – Musicologist Dale Cockrell

~ Lunchtime Banquet ~

Special Guest: Laura Ingalls Wilder Biographer John Miller

Presentation: What Is at Stake in Staking a Claim? – Jenna Hunnef

Presentation: The Long Winter Seed Wheat Trip – Jim Hicks

Presentation: Laura’s Long Winter: Putting the Hard Winter of 1880-81 into Perspective – Barbara Mayes Boustead

Panel: Laura Ingalls Wilder Homesite Directors and/or Staff

Panel: Authors of LIW-related books

~ Break for dinner ~

Author’s Reception

FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2010

Special Guest: Laura Ingalls Wilder Biographer William T. Anderson

Concurrent Education and Craft Workshops

Education Workshop:

• Little House in the Elementary Classroom – Barbara Hawkins
• Making a Little House Video – George Hawkins

Craft Workshop

• Needlecraft and the Little House Books – Connie Neumann
• Welcome to the Craft Circle – Amy Lauters and Linnea Mattson

~ Break for Lunch ~

Special Guest: Laura Ingalls Wilder Biographer Pamela Smith Hill

Presentation: The Role of Book Design and the Publishing Industry on the “Little House” Books – Sarah Sue Uthoff

Presentation: By the Shores of Silver Lake from Manuscript to Book – Suzanne B. Falck-Yi

Presentation: Illustrating Little House in the Big Woods – Kay Weisman

Presentation: Too Much Estrogen in This Little House? A Mother and Daughter Story – Gayle Abrahamson and Jane Palmer

Presentation: Gender and Little House on the Prairie – Emily Woster

Panel: Another Side of the Story: American Indians in the Little House

• An Osage Indian Responds to Little House on the Prairie – Nancy Briggs Carlson
• The Minnesota Dakota Conflicts – Charles Lewis, MSU
• Images of the American Indian Movement, Mavis Richardson, MSU
• A Dakota story — Dave Larsen, former tribal chair of the Lower Sioux and current Director of American Indian Affairs, MSU

~ Break for Dinner ~

Dean Butler — Legacy Documentaries’ Special Presentation

SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2010

Special Guest: Author Wendy Corsi Staub

Presentation: Popular Then…Popular Now… Why? – Ann Weller Dahl

Panel: Loving Laura in a Lindsay Lohan World – Erin Blakemore, Sandra Hume and Wendy McClure

~ Spelling Bee and Tin Pail Lunch ~

Field Trip to Walnut Grove