The First Four Years
Happy Anniversary, Laura and Almanzo!
Our favorite couple celebrates 125 years of wedded bliss today.
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Happy Anniversary!
Today we celebrate the 124th wedding anniversary of Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder. In honor of the day, let’s share what we love best about the romance or relationship between the two (this can be either during their courtship or during the marriage)!
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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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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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The Mystery of the Oval Glass Bread Plate
For themselves, they decided to buy a present together, something they could both use and enjoy. After much studying of Montgomery Ward’s catalogue, they chose to get a set of glassware. They needed it for the table and there was such a pretty set advertised, a sugar bowl, spoon-holder, butter dish, six sauce dishes, and
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