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Day Five of Laurapalooza 2010

Sarah Uthoff — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:11:37 +0000

Today the actual conference sessions were only in the morning followed up a spelling bee at lunch time and then everyone headed out. Some people headed home, others went to see the Betsy-Tacy houses which featured special events for the day, but I followed another part of the group and headed to Walnut Grove, Minnesota for a tour and then to the pageant for the night.

Laurapalooza Day 5 Part 1

Laura Ingalls Wilder Documentary, Wendy Corsi Staub, Barbara Mays Boustead, John Fry, Ann Dahl, Gayle Keresey, and Loving Laura panel.

Laurapalooza Day 5 Part 2

Judy Green, Tin Pail Luncheon/Spelling Bee, and Farewell Mankato.

Laurapalooza Trip – Sleepy Eye, Minnesota

Well known to TV fans. Sleepy Eye is right on Highway 14 – The Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway between Mankato and Walnut Grove. The video should also prove of interest to people who collect Sleepy Eye pottery and Peanuts fans. I took a quick look around Sleepy Eye on my way to Walnut Grove.

Laurapalooza Trip – Walnut Grove, Minnesota Part 1

Laurapalooza Trip – Walnut Grove, Minnesota Part 2

What was going on in Walnut Grove after we got their complete with guided tour.

Sarah S. Uthoff blogs at TrundleBed Tales; look for her on Twitter and YouTube and Blog Talk Radio
Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association, Vice-President and Membership Chair

Day Four of Laurapalooza 2010

Sarah Uthoff — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:41:37 +0000

We hope that everyone is enjoying re-living Laurapalooza 2010 with us and is getting all excited about Laurapalooza 2012. We hope these videos are giving those of you who didn’t get to come last time a taste of what it’s like. Have you thought about what you might want to present on? The second full day of the Laurapalooza conference began with a surprise in the parking lot.

Laurapalooza Day 4 Part 1

Old car, Connie Neumann, Amy Lauters, Linnea Mattson, (Quilts, Sewing, and Crafts), and Betsy-Tacy events.

Laurapalooza Day 4 Part 2

Pamela Smith Hill, Make and Take Crafts, Sarah S. Uthoff , Bookstore Display, Suzanne Falck-Yi, College Library, Kay Weisman, Gayle Abrahamson and Jane Palmer.

Laurapalooza Day 4 Part 3

Emily Wooster, Osage Native American Responds, Charles Lewis, and Mavis Richardson.

Day Two of Laurapalooza 2010

Sarah Uthoff — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:40:14 +0000

We continue this week as we look back to Laurapalooza 2010. Day Two of my Laurapalooza trip was spent in Mankato. It turned out I wasn’t needed to do much for the conference that day so instead I caught some of the sights of Mankato. However, that evening was the first event of the conference. It was an ice cream social, moved indoors because of the heat, and attended by many of the big names of the conference much to the excitement of all.

Day Two of Laurapalooza

Arrival in Mankato! This video includes Maude Hart Lovelace information, a look around the University of Minnesota-Mankato campus, and, towards the end, the ice cream social that marks the beginning of the conference. Look for welcomes from Amy Lauters, the Betsy-Tacy Society, John E. Miller, and Dean Butler.

Laurapalooza Trip Video Diary – Day 4 Part 3

Sarah Uthoff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:56:13 +0000

Laurapalooza Trip Diary – Day 4 Part 3

This is the final video to get uploaded which completes my Laurapalooza videos. I’m sorry it’s over. I hope you’ve enjoyed it.

Emily Wooster – Gender and Little House on the Prairie, Osage Indian Responds to Little House on the Prairie Video, Charles Lewis – Minnesota Dakota Conflicts, and Mavis Richardson – Images of the American Indian Movement.

Sarah S. Uthoff blogs at TrundleBed Tales; look for her on Twitter and YouTube.

Laurapalooza Video Diary – Day 4 Part 1

Sarah Uthoff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:23:24 +0000

Laurapalooza Trip Diary – Day 4 Part 1

Here we go catching up one of the two videos I had to skip earlier. Those of you who enjoy sewing and crafts will especially enjoy today’s video.

Old car – Laura and Almanzo’s?, Connie Neumann – The Handwork Heritage of the Ingalls-Wilder Families, Amy Lauters and Linnea Mattson – Welcome to the Craft Circle, and the Betsy-Tacy special tour.

Sarah S. Uthoff blogs at TrundleBed Tales; look for her on Twitter and YouTube.

Laurapalooza Video Diary Day 5 Part 1

Sarah Uthoff — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:49:43 +0000

I have had several people ask. There are 2 more parts for Day 4, but I’m waiting on word it’s OK to include one thing in each. Hopefully they will be coming soon.

Laurapalooza Trip Day 5 Day 1

This is the beginning of the last full day of Laurapalooza. I hope you enjoy it.

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Life Stories of a Pioneer Girl (Documentary), Wendy Corsi Staub, Barbara Mays Boustead Gives a Weather Warning, John Fry (author of The Farm Press, Reform, and Rural Change), Ann Dahl – Popular Now, Popular Then – Why?, Gayle Keresey, and Loving Laura in a Lindsey Lohan World Panel – Sandra Hume, Erin Blakemore, Wendy McClure.

Sarah S. Uthoff blogs at TrundleBed Tales; look for her on Twitter and YouTube.

Update on Videos and One More on the Way

Sarah Uthoff — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:32:47 +0000

I just wanted to thank everybody who has said nice things about the videos so far. (Keep it up – it was more work than I thought it would be. ;-p) Anyway, I was doing pretty well until I had so much for Thurs. and then we had night activities at the conference Thurs., Fri., and Sat. and I had no Internet Access Saturday or Sunday and I spent yesterday unpacking. So the upshot is look for the rest of the videos starting hopefully tonight.

There is something I have to check on in what should be the next video and something else in one for the day after that, but rather than wait for definite OK on what I want to include, I’m just going to go ahead and post the ones I’m not waiting on word about. That means the will be a couple out of order, but at this point I think it’s more important to get them up. I’ll do a post of links in the proper order when I get done.

Thank you for watching with me!

I have one more “And One More on the Way” post I really want to include and that will probably be it for right now, but look for the series to return another time. (Tell me if you’d like it to.) I hope people enjoyed them and I’ve heard that at least 2 people actually added a stop to their route so I think they were a success.

Sarah S. Uthoff blogs at TrundleBed Tales; look for her on Twitter and YouTube.

Laurapalooza Video Diary – Day 2

Sarah Uthoff — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:04:09 +0000

I think this video is even better than yesterday’s. If you don’t recognize somebody, feel free to ask in a comment.

Laurapalooza Trip Day 2

It includes a report on Maude Hart Lovelace at the Mankato public library. It follows up with footage of campus and the ice cream social, including welcomes from Amy Lauters, the Betsy-Tacy Society, John E. Miller, and Dean Butler.

Mankato Public Library

http://www.beclibrary.org/mankato.php

Betsy-Tacy Society

http://www.betsy-tacysociety.org

John E. Miller – South Dakota State Historical Society Press

http://www.sdshspress.com/index.php?id=42&action=940

Dean Butler’s Documentaries

http://www.legacydocumentaries.com

I found out during the Native American panel at Laurapalooza that one of the largest group hangings in American history (in retribution for the Dakota Uprising aka by Mrs. Scott in Little House on the Prairie the Minnesota Massacre) was held in the future site of Reconciliation Park.

Sarah S. Uthoff blogs at TrundleBed Tales; look for her on Twitter and YouTube.

Sloo and Slough

Sarah Uthoff — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:15:59 +0000

When I was in De Smet this summer, we were talking about the Big Slough and as always a quote from Emily of Deep Valley popped into my head. Other people in the conference planning group said they had the same thing happen to them. It’s so nice to be with people who understand you. I hope all our readers get that chance at the conference this summer.

Oh, and the other thing the quote makes pop into my head is Cherry Jones reading Farmer Boy. Jones, clearly not a farm girl, says hay mow (rhymed with row) instead of hay mow (rhymes with now). Every time I listen to it, I spend the whole time automatically correcting her. Now you can too.

Lovelace, Maud Hart. Emily of Deep Valley. New York: Harper Trophy, 2000. ISBN 0064408582

“The Deep Valley slough, pronounced sloo, was the marshy inlet of a river. When Emily had first read Pilgrim’s Progress, after finding it mentioned in Louisa M. Alcott’s Little Women, she had pronounced the Slough of Despond sloo, too. She had called it sloo until Miss Fowler had told her in English class that Bunyan’s Slough rhymed with “how.” Miss Fowler had made the correction in a casual unembarrassing way, putting her emphasis on the fact that Emily alone, out of the class, had read Pilgrim’s Progress.” pp.15-16.

Emily Webster, an orphan living with her grandfather, is not like the other girls her age in Deep Valley, Minnesota. The gulf between Emily and her classmates widens even more when they graduate from Deep Valley High in 1912. Emily longs to go off to college with everyone else, but she can’t leave her grandfather. Emily resigns herself to facing a “lost winter,” but soon decides to stop feeling sorry for herself. And with a new program of study, a growing interest in the Syrian immigrant community, and a handsome new teacher at the high school to fill her days, Emily gains more than she ever dreamed. This is one of three non-Betsy-Tacy novels she set in the same community of Deep Valley, a stand in for her home town of Mankato, Minnesota. Betsy and Tacy do make a brief cameo appearance. I love this book because it really depicts the time period so well.

Sarah Sue Uthoff

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