I just did a quick call around to see when the Laura museums open for the year. This is subject to change in other years, but I thought might give everyone a good idea when they are open. If you…
Month: April 2011
Laura Season Opens
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Ask The Experts: The Long Winter
Dear Beyond Little House: Why was the winter so long? And do we still have long winters in the same pattern that the old Indian described? Kathrine Dear Kathrine: This question is best answered by Barbara Mayes Boustead in this…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 7: Nine Dollars
Guest post by Cay Gibson There are so many chapters I love in Little Town on the Prairie; I couldn’t choose one even though I was offered. So I let the pages fall where they may and took this chapter,…
Little House in Simi Valley
Normally I don’t post much about the NBC Little House on the Prairie TV show. However, I think this is worth a post. Alison Arngrim, who appeared on the show as Nellie Oleson and is very generous Twittering with fans…
Listening to the voices of nature…
With the birds singing, the trees budding and, “the green grass growing all around,” as we used to sing in school, who would not love the country and prefer farm life to any other? We are glad that so much…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 6: The Month of Roses
Guest post by Amanda Morris When I was very young, probably around ten years old, I bought a Little House Diary from a local bookstore. Each chapter was decorated with a border that was representative of that month. I don’t…
Steve Luse of Burr Oak Gives Update
The most recent episode of Trundlebed Tales Radio featured an interview with Steve Luse, director of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum in Burr Oak, Iowa. Luse gave listeners the scoop about a major redesign of several of the…
The Anniversary of Ma’s Death (Easter Sunday, April 20, 1924)
Eighty-seven years ago, Caroline Quiner Ingalls passed away. The world knows her (and loves her) as Ma Ingalls. Upon hearing of her mother’s death, Laura wrote the following passage for The Missouri Ruralist: As a Farm Woman ThinksBy Mrs. A.J. Wilder…
Ask the Experts: Foreign Translations of the Books
Dear Beyond Little House: As a long-time lover of the books AND someone who is interested in foreign languages, I have always been intrigued by the many translated versions, but have had little luck finding them. Some years ago I was…
Wilder Barns Burn! — in 1851
Extra, extra, read all about it! Wilder Barns Burn But don’t panic — this is no recent devastation, but rather, a headline culled from an 1851 edition of the Franklin Gazette, courtesy of the Franklin County Historical Society in New…
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