I just wanted to share with you the great stamp design that I got to mail out the membership renewals. This stamp is in honor of the state of Kansas and has both a traditional water pumping windmill used by…
Month: June 2011
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 19: The Whirl of Gaiety
Guest post by Eddie Higgins If ever I find my calendar getting booked up with several social occasions in one week, I indulge my inner Laura by saying out loud, “I am living in such a whirl of gaiety lately,…
Member Year 2011-2012 Begins
All Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association (LIWLRA) Charter Memberships will expire July 1, 2011. While you will retain Charter status, you will need to renew to remain current members. Thank you to everyone who joined. We ended up…
Your Code of Honor
What is your personal code of honor? Just what do you consider dishonorable or disgraceful in personal conduct? It seems to me that we had all grown rather careless in holding ourselves to any code of honor and just a…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 18: Literaries
by Sandra Hume and Erin Blakemore Sandra: Sigh. Literaries. Erin: The chapter title does not bode well, folks. One would almost think that Ma had got a hold of a Dickens serial or an edifying work of Mr. Bulwer-Lytton. No…
Anniversary of the death of Charles (Pa) Ingalls- June 8
On June 8, 1902 Charles Ingalls passed away in De Smet, South Dakota. What a life he led, and what a legacy he left behind…as he will be forever remembered as ”Pa” Ingalls- frontier settler, fiddle player, story teller, farmer, father and friend. The…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 17: The Sociable
Guest post by Amanda Morris This chapter begins with a visit from Mary Power, informing Laura that the Ladies’ Aid Society is giving a dime sociable and asking if she can attend. Laura does not know what a dime sociable…
Memorial Society in De Smet Opens Online Exhibit
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society in De Smet, South Dakota has unveiled an online exhibit section to their website. So far there is just one display, on Rose Wilder Lane, but the use of the plural form in the…
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Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 16: Name Cards
Guest post by Lauri Goforth If anyone saw the sign-ups, I pretty much begged for this chapter. We’ve met Laura. We’ve met Almanzo. They’ve seen each other, but for the first time in this chapter they have a chance to…