Boom! Laura was jerked out of sleep. The bedroom was dark. Carrie asked in a thin, scared whisper, “What was that?” “Don’t be scared,” Laura answered. They listened. The window was hardly gray in the dark, but Laura could feel…
Year: 2009
America’s King
The crowd was scattering away then, but Laura stood stock still. Suddenly she had a completely new thought. The Declaration and the song came together in her mind, and she thought: God is America’s king. She thought: Americans won’t obey…
Independence Day
“Father, how was it axes and plows that made this country? Didn’t we fight England for it?” “We fought for Independence, son,” Father said. “But all the land our forefathers had was a little strip of country, here between the…
Where History is Preserved…
I recently returned from my first Little House trip of the year, and felt I just had to share about the wonderful experience I had at one of the homesites. You often hear lovely stories about visits to Mansfield, to…
Summer Giveaway #2 winners
For Summer Giveaway #2, the computer at random.org picked these two lucky winners: Tess C. and Caroline. Please email [email removed] with your mailing address. Remember, there will be several opportunities throughout the summer to win a copy so if…
Issue 15, Summer 2009
In this issue: The author of an upcoming book on Laura shares her experience with dash butter churning A high school biology teacher talks about walking in Laura’s footsteps in trips taken from the pages of her books Looking at…
More On Racism in Little House
The following comment came in from reader Shanti over the weekend, on Laura Welser’s post of May 6, 2009: “Should Little House Be Banned?” this is a late comment – I came here by way of a Google search on…
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Activist?
First, thanks to everyone who listened to my first official radio interview. It was an interesting experience, and I appreciated an interviewer who’d obviously read the book first! Thanks to Sandra, too, for posting the link to the recording of…
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On Horses and Oysters
After Sandra referred to Almanzo Wilder as “The Oyster” in her last post, Laura W expressed her curiosity in the comments as to what this was all about. I decided to post the answer rather than reply to Laura as…
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…
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