My heart’s a-flutter. For in this chapter, our heroine meets her hero for the first time, and sighs of delight echo across the prairies from romantic young (and old?) readers. At the opening of our scene, it’s still hot. Even…
Month: January 2010
Happy Laura Ingalls Wilder Day!
What? You hadn’t heard? That’s right, today is officially “Laura Ingalls Wilder Day” in the state of Wisconsin, as proclaimed by its governor, Jim Doyle. The proclamation was presented at 1 pm today by Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton at the…
Little House in Court: What Happened?
The Little House on the Prairie site In the fall of 2008, the Little House on the Prairie homesite near Independence, Kansas, made national headlines due to a lawsuit filed against them by Friendly Family Productions, who own the rights…
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Vote for Half Pint
Many of you may be familiar with @HalfPintIngalls and her experiences on the “twittergraph” — and if you’re not, you’ll want to be! Half Pint has been nominated for the Shorty Awards in humor and you can support her by…
Announcing LauraPalooza 2010: Legacies
Read all about it: LAURAPALOOZA 2010: Conference Celebrating Laura Ingalls Wilder Hits Minnesota in July
The Long Winter, Chapter 1: Make Hay While the Sun Shines
It’s hot. It’s probably August, though the book doesn’t explicitly say. It’s the summer after the first winter near De Smet—the winter of the Surveyors’ House and the oyster-soup New Year’s dinner—and the Ingalls family is out on the claim.…
Lauras and Their Picture Windows
Laura pops up in all aspects of my life, it seems. Even in other books. Right now — that is, when I’m not reading The Long Winter, which I’ll post about in the next day or so — I’m in…
Mary’s Birthday
Today is the 145th anniversary of the birth of Mary Amelia Ingalls. It’s also the 174th birthday of her father, Charles Ingalls (Pa), but as nobody threw him a party, let’s just talk about Mary. Despite frigid temperatures and snowy…
Update on “Caroline Years” Author Maria D. Wilkes
When HarperCollins decided to create a series of spin-off books featuring various extended family members of Laura Ingalls Wilder, they made each author assume a pseudonym that began Wil- so that they would appear besides Laura on bookshop shelves. Maria…
The Long Winter in January? Why Not?
One thing (among many) noticeable on Facebook is that everyone talks about the weather. As in life, I suppose. And winter, it seems, has arrived but good. Everywhere. Recently, it snowed in Houston. Right now, it’s snowing in Florida and…