Call for Proposals, LauraPalooza 2012:What Would Laura Do? The National Laura Ingalls WilderLegacy and Research Association Conference Sponsored by the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association and the Department of Mass Media at Minnesota State University, Mankato We invite…
Month: August 2011
Happy Anniversary!
Today is Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 126th wedding anniversary! As a way for all of us to celebrate together, how about if we share our favorite Laura and Almanzo moment in the comments below?
The Long Winter Researcher in the News!
Check out this article in the USAToday about U. S. National Weather Service meteorologist Barb Mayes Boustead who was a presenter at LauraPalooza 2010. Barb has done extensive research on the weather during The Long Winter and, well, read the…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: LauraPalooza 2010: Legacies, Little House in the News, The Long Winter
While Supplies Last — LauraPalooza 2010 Programs For Sale
Did you miss last year’s inaugural LauraPalooza conference? We have a very limited number of gorgeous programs left. Between its covers you’ll find descriptions of all the presentations and panels, as well as biographies of the presenters and panelists. There’s…
Harvey Dunn Artist Event
For the past several years, The Harvey Dunn Society (formed to honor the work of wonderful artist Harvey Dunn) has held a plein air event at the Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, South Dakota. During this event artists gather to…
Restoring Rocky Ridge?
Laura’s homesites are precious to me. Each of them has its own charm, its own pleasant remembrances of a time long ago when our beloved Laura lived there. But there is something about Rocky Ridge Farm* that fills me with…
Membership Reminder
Hey ho, it’s your friendly neighborhood membership chair again and I just want to encourage you to go ahead and renew your membership in the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association (LIWLRA) if you haven’t already. Partly this is…
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Go Beyond By Reading Books
When we were originally working on this site, we talked a lot about what it should be like. Some of those things were created from the beginning. Others didn’t come together right away as we worked on other plans. Originally…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Administrivia, Beyond Little House, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, William T. Anderson
After Rock Me To Sleep
Last week, I wrote about losing my mother and finding the poem “Rock Me To Sleep” by Elizabeth Akers Allen (written in 1859), which readers of the “Little House” books will remember Mrs. Bradley singing in Little Town on the…
Little House… for Toddlers?
My toddler is a huge “Little House” fan. Yes, that’s right. I said my toddler. Who says you have to be a big kid to enjoy Laura’s world? A number of “My First Little House” board books were published over…