Some interesting thoughts on the politics of Little House on the Prairie can be found over at Wuthering Expectations today. Your thoughts?
Month: November 2010
The Wheat on My Street
So turns out, this street sign is a mere mile from my house. But I rarely drive by that way so I never noticed it. Yep, we’re wheat farmers around here.
LauraPalooza Photo Challenge
Currently open on my computer is the special LauraPalooza edition of The Homesteader. If I do say so myself, it is looking sweeeeeeet. Just paging through it, scanning the text and all the photos, I’m living those two and a…
The Hard Winter in Context
Our favorite meteorologist, Barbara Mayes Boustead, will be presenting her work on Laura’s Long Winter on Nov. 17 in Sioux Falls, S.D. From the poster: Laura’s Long Winter: Putting the Hard Winter of 1880-81 into Perspective Wednesday, November 17, 2010…
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas Exhibit
Today I got the flyer for the opening and Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas Tree Exhibit at the Hoover Presidential Library. A Little House Christmas November 20 – January 2, 2011 Twenty trees decorated in the traditions of Laura Ingalls Wilder…
BLH Contributors In the News
The Chronicle Times in Cherokee, Iowa posted a recent story about Beyond Little House’s own Sarah Uthoff. BLH contributor and Homesteader editor Sandra Hume’s story “Little Trip on the Prairie,” which chronicles her family’s trip to Pepin, Walnut Grove and…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Little House in the News, Little House Travel, The Homesteader Newsletter, Writings About Laura
Women’s Duty at the Polls
Now that women in Missouri have been given the right to vote for President of the United States and the prospect is good that they will be granted full franchise in the state, it will be interesting to observe how…