If you joined after May 1st or have been in communication with me after May 1st ignore this, but everyone else should have received their welcome letter and membership card by now. If you haven’t (and remember some of you…
Year: 2011
ATTENTION LIWRA Members!
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Yesterday morning, my adult daughter and I were talking about Laura and her Ma and Mother’s Day. Of course, Mother’s Day didn’t exist during Laura’s childhood, but there was never any doubt that Laura honored her mother. My daughter, Jamie,…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 9: Blackbirds
Guest post by Teresa Lynn (aka TLynn) This chapter begins with the same optimism found in the book so far, with the revelation that Mary is at long last going to be able to go to college in the fall. …
Little Town on the Prairie Read-Along Chapter Offer
Due to an illness and a little scrambling of the chapter posts, I find myself with two chapters to cover in a row. I don’t mind, really I don’t! But I do know there were one or two readers who…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 8: Fourth of July
The Fourth of July. Here in Michigan it’s hard to imagine the fourth of July. We’ve barely enjoyed any spring here and I’m having a hard time believing that it’ll ever be summer! It started, very early, with a BOOM…
Charter Memberships Coming to a Close
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association was founded in July 2009. Our first goal was to establish an on-going conference about Laura, but hope to eventually be able to support fandom other ways. When we started it was…
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Learning from Experience
I have just learned something new! Isn’t it a wonderful thing that we are “never too old to learn” and also sometimes isn’t it strange that no matter how many years we have numbered we still learn best from that…
Laura Season Opens
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…
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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,…