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Will 2009-2010 be another Long Winter?
I know; I did the math. This winter is NOT a 21st winter.
However, we in Minnesota had snow two weeks ago, and the Dakotas had a blizzard.
In October.
Sound familiar?
No one’s been reduced to twisting hay yet; there’s plenty of food in the grocery and other “big-box” stores. The railroads are running. Heck, I’ll go one
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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 bone; their
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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 some time.
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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 menu: “There
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Boys like Laura, too, don't they?
In a conversation with my sister-cousin, Nicole Kohls, this weekend, talk turned to Little House.
Now, Nic is one of the cousins, along with her sister Sara, who regularly played with my sister, Tracy, and I when we were small. Games often included long-ranging arguments over who would make the best Mary, who should be Laura,
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Notes on a Mini-LauraPalooza
I finally stood in Plum Creek today.
Tiny minnows swum up and down the creek bed, easily seen in crystal clear water just a few inches deep. From the bank on which I stood, I could look up and directly at the site of the dugout featured in On the Banks of Plum Creek. I remembered
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Laura Palooza 2010: Your thoughts?
This weekend, several of us are gathering in De Smet, S.D., to enjoy Laura’s little town and to hammer out some details for next summer’s Laura Palooza 2010, to be held in Mankato, Minn., July 15-17. One thing we all want to know is what YOU want in a conference event of this site.
Some things
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Amy on NPR Talking About Her Book!
She tried to be humble about it, slipping it in at the bottom of her post, but I won’t let her get away with that. Beyond Little House’s own Amy Mattson Lauters was on a Wisconsin NPR station today talking about her book, More Than a Farmer’s Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910-1960. Thanks
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