The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library has included her entire speech from her visit complete with lots of photos.
Wendy McClure at Hoover Presidential Library

And while you are on the Hoover YouTube page, check out their Laura exhibit from the 1990s.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Exhibit

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Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association, Vice-President and Membership Chair

Wendy McClure, author of the upcoming The Wilder Life and frequent guest poster on Beyond Little House, posted about the conference on her own blog. Erin Blakemore, whose The Heroine’s Bookshelf (pre-ordering available!) will be out this October, wrote a guest post, Five Things I Learned at LauraPalooza over at Book Club Girl.

I’m also here to introduce the Beyond Little House group at Flickr.  There’s a photo group for the Little House TV show on Flickr and even a group about little houses, but until now, there hasn’t been a group for photos of the homesites, festivals and other Little House- and Laura-related stuff. And there’s a LOT of those to be found.

I’ve added some of my photos from my homesite trips this summer, and I’ve been searching Flickr for other photos and inviting folks to put them in the group. Some images are of places you may have seen before—like the dugout and Almanzo’s home—and some are a bit more unusual, like Pa’s homestead permit, a modern-art piece based on an Ingalls family photo, and a self-portrait of a Little House fan geeking out. And that’s just for starters.

If you’re already on Flickr, you can simply join the group and add your photos, and if you have Little House photos that you’d like to share, consider becoming a Flickr member! (It’s free, unless you want a “pro” account.)  We’d also love to be able to use some of these images here on Beyond Little House, so if you’d like your pictures to be considered, just drop us a line on this discussion page to give permission (we won’t use your photos unless you say it’s OK).  And keep visiting the group to see what kind of new photos show up…

1. Several announcements to make.
2. Not a lot of time.
3. There’s just no way I could follow up that fantabulous post of Sandra’s yesterday.

So I leave you with a list of announcements, and a promise of something more substantial next time.

1. Congratulations to our co-contributor, Amy Mattson Lauters, on the release of her latest book, More Than a Farmer’s Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910-1960. According to the product description, “This investigation of fifty years of farm life reveals that many women saw farming as an opportunity to be full partners with their husbands and considered themselves businesswomen central to the success of their farms.” Hmm… know any farm women of that time period who thought that way?   I’ll post a full review of the book soon!

2. After all these years, Nellie Oleson is still fighting to keep that “country girl” from showing her up. We’ve announced here before that Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura on the Little House on the Prairie television series, is preparing to go on national tour with the Little House on the Prairie musical playing the role of Ma Ingalls, and has an autobiography coming out next month. Well, leave it to Nellie — or Alison Arngrim, who played her role on the television series. Alison is also going on tour — a Hollywood bus tour, that is — and you can go with her. Alison will share stories about Hollywood celebrities, as well as tales from her own childhood, on this three-hour-tour running several days a week from May through August 2009. And the book? Alison just signed with a publisher to release her own autobiography, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch.

3. Speaking of books, we mustn’t forget about Wendy McClure, who is currently writing The Wilder Life. She blogged this week that she’s looking for “intriguing or hilarious anecdotes about visiting any of the Laura Ingalls Wilder sites.” Have a tale for her? Drop her a line.