Group of Blind Students at Vinton By now you may have seen a similar post I made on Trundlebed Tales, but I wanted tomake sure everyone had seen this, plus there is a lovely article in the The Cedar…
Year: 2012
Laura Homesite Season Ends
October usually is about the end of the main Laura Ingalls Wilder season for the year. If you plan a Laura trip after that, make sure you call ahead. They may or may not be able to accommodate you by…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Announcements, Burr Oak, Burr Oak IA, De Smet -- Ingalls Homestead, De Smet -- LIWMS, De Smet SD, Independence, Independence KS, Keystone SD, Malone, Malone NY, Mansfield, Mansfield MO, Pepin, Pepin WI, Spring Valley, Spring Valley MN, Walnut Grove
The “Other” Laura Ingalls Wilder
When fans finish the Little House series, they often move on to other things Laura wrote, including her columns in The Missiouri Ruralist. Although some fans don’t like these as they are different in tone and style the “Little House”…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Ann Weller Dahl, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Missouri Ruralist, Quotations from Laura, Writings and Works
East Coast, How Are You?
I live in Michigan, a pretty fair distance from the East Coast. But the effects of Hurricane Sandy are evident, even at this distance: power outages, downed trees. I see clean-up crews all over the place. And that’s simply nothing…
Roadshow Comes to South Dakota | Beyond Little House
This summer at roughly the same time that LauraPalooza was going on, PBS show Antique Roadshow came to film in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Since this is near De Smet when I visited there on my way home from the…
Posted in Announcements Tagged with: Antique Roadshow, Harvey Dunn, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mildred Boyle, PBS, South Dakota Public Broadcasting
Texting From The Covered Wagon | Beyond Little House
I am officially an empty nester now. I can’t complain. I mean, my son lives a half mile away and my daughter lives just shy of five miles away. This is actually our second time around with an empty nest.…
Posted in Cultural Impact, Laura's Legacy
Watch Jeopardy Today
Roland Frank Rydstrom of the De Smet Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society asked us to pass this along. Please tune in to JEOPARDY Friday, October 26th. A special Laura Ingalls Wilder-related answer/question will be featured in the new episode! The…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Announcements, Cultural Impact, De Smet -- LIWMS, De Smet SD, Jeopardy, Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society De Smet SD
Laura Ingalls Wilder Quilts
Episode 35 of Trundlebed Tales featured one of the speakers from LauraPalooza, talking about Quilts and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Listen as I talk quilts with quilt historian Linda Halpin. We explore trends in quilts during Laura Ingalls Wilder’s lifetime and…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Crafting, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Linda Halplin, Quilting with Laura, quilts, Sarah Uthoff, Trundlebed Tales
Memberships 2012-2013
I want to report that having sent out the last batch of cards and letters on Monday, everyone who renewed or joined LIWLRA between June 1, 2012 and now (October 19, 2012) should have received a letter and membership card.…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Administrivia, Announcements, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association, Memberships
The October Blizzard: 131st Anniversary
Due to some technical difficulties this post is delayed from yesterday. Every year as October 15th (and it is the 15th although some secondary sources list the 13th which I assume was a typo that’s been mindlessly copied) I start…