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Little House Traveler
Re-reading Little House Traveler this weekend, I was struck by two particular things: 1. Despite the fact that she presumably had a decent income by the time she made her trip back to South Dakota with Almanzo, Laura was compelled to track her finances in her journal. 2. She and Almanzo were farmers to the
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LauraPalooza 2010 News
Folks, we’ve got some exciting news on the LP 2010 front. First, we’ve confirmed John E. Miller and Pamela Smith Hill as guest speakers. Miller is the author of at least three books and numerous articles about the Wilder-Lane women and their legacies. And Hill recently published the first new biography of Laura in quite
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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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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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Pie Plant
One of the key questions I had about The First Four Years had nothing to do with the plot, the relationships, or Laura. It had to do with pie plant. You may remember the scene: Laura was cooking for the threshers, the first dinner in her very own little house, and was running through the
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Boys like Laura, too, don’t they?
The Little House books…they’re not just for girls!
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Notes on a Mini-LauraPalooza
Beyond Little House connects with Laura and is inspired – LauraPalooza 2010!
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Laura Palooza 2010: Your thoughts?
What are you thoughts on the upcoming LauraPalooza 2010?
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