Guest post by Melanie Stringer Sent Home from School has always been a stand-out chapter for me. Even when reading it as a child and teenager, I found it a noticeable departure from the usual depiction of Laura’s harmonious obedience…
Month: May 2011
Listen and Remember
When supper was over, Uncle George went outside the door and blew his army bugle, long and loud. It made a lovely, ringing sound, far away through the Big Woods. The woods were dark and silent and the trees stood…
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Victory May Depend on You
“It is a war in each man’s heart. Each man is fighting as the spirit moves him,” said Hira Singh, speaking of the war, in the absorbing story of author Talbot Mundy. Every day is showing more plainly that Hira…
Prairie Days 2011
We’re kicking off the first Laura event of the summer. If you can make it, please come join the fun in Independence, Kansas at the Little House on the Prairie Museum site.
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Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 13: School Days
Laura was enjoying school. And it does sound like Laura is really enjoying school. She has good friends in Ida, Mary Power, and Minnie. She feels comfortable enough to play games with the little boys, when they ask, and not…
40th Anniversary of De Smet Pageant
This year will be the 40th anniversary of the regular presentation of the De Smet Pageant. The De Smet Pageant rotates its story and this year will be doing By the Shores of Silver Lake. In addition to the normal…
From a Farm Woman to You
When Rose Wilder Lane wrote me about the street of the alchemists in the old city of Prague, it gave me a sense of shock that people, not so very long ago, should have credited anyone with the powers which…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 12: Snug for Winter
Guest post by Barb Boustead In sharp contrast to the start of the Long Winter, the Ingalls family is preparing itself for the worst that winter can bring by harvesting and moving to town before any blizzards can catch them…
Laurapalooza Merchandise Input
In our continuing work on Laurapalooza 2012, we are looking at what we are going to sell for the conference. Profit from all sales goes into supporting the conference and hopefully eventually into other projects that will support Laura fandom.…
Can you find the Little House connection?
We tap maple trees here on our property in Michigan and have a very small scale maple syrup processing operation. In my never ending quest for knowledge , I was recently reading Maple Sugar (a history, lore, and how-to of…