Rose Wilder Lane
Why Did Laura Write?
A reader wonders what, exactly, compelled Laura to write the Little House series.
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Cabinetmaker Builds Replicas of Laura’s Lap Desk
We interview cabinetmaker David Johnson about the replicas he builds of Laura’s lap desk.
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Memorial Society in De Smet Opens Online Exhibit
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society in De Smet has introduced an online exhibit.
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A Rose in December
All this talk about Rose has again made me reflect on her life. Since I am, indeed, in the researching-and-writing stage of working on a biography of Rose, it’s not hard for me to settle in to thinking about her. As a woman, Rose seemed tense, conflicted, inwardly struggling with depression and outwardly maintaining the
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Why Little House is Purple
I like purple. I like it a lot. It’s my favorite color, in fact. I remember when I first learned how purple came to be. During those carefree childhood days of summer, my grandparents kept all of us kids well supplied with freeze pops. My cousin and I would each eat half of our popsicle,
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Rose Wilder Lane … Who Knew?
Well, we did. But apparently, now that the venerable New Yorker has run an article about Rose and Laura–containing no new information, and just a lot of commentary based on recycled sources–cyberspace is whirling with debate about Rose’s politics, the expressed values in the Little House series, and even Christian doctrine as expressed in the
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