I hope you enjoyed Day of my trip to Laura Days in Pepin, Wisconsin. Get ready for Day 2 Setting up for Laura Days, putting on the finishing touches Information Booth, Get tickets here! Vendor Area including Raffle Quilt Spelling…
Year: 2012
Laura Days in Pepin WI Trip 2012 Day 2
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Little House: EXTINCT! Could It Happen?
Tuesday morning seemed ordinary enough. I got my oldest off to school, fed and dressed my younger two, and packed them into the car for the weekly drive to Story Hour at the library. My toddler excitedly pushed the handicapped-accessible…
Almost Ten Months
My baby boy spends most of the day on his feet. He’s got the run of a fenced-in pen that confines him nicely. He moves around the perimeter more gracefully each day, his chubby fingers solidly gripping the thin plastic…
Celebrating Your Birthday, Prairie Style!
I didn’t start reading the Little House books until I was eleven. So I missed out on being Laura Ingalls Wilder for Halloween (that will be remedied this year!) and I never really had a prairie girl birthday party, although…
Laura Days in Pepin WI Trip 2012 Day 1
During the last few years of my trips to Pepin, Wisconsin for Laura Days I’ve been taking footage. I wanted to put together showing all the things that you could do in Pepin. Every time I come home without footage…
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Little House: The Movie?
A Little House on the Prairie movie? Sounds like it may just be in the works according to these articles in Huffington Post and New York Daily News. Take note of who is involved in this project. It is to…
Little House Values Still Worthwhile Today
Guest post by Ann Weller Dahl Three generations of readers have enjoyed the classics by Laura Ingalls Wilder known collectively as the “Little House” books. One reason is that the values that were important to the Ingalls and the Wilders…
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LauraPalooza 2012 Days 5 and 6 Videos
Welcome to Days 5 and 6 of LauraPalooza, Sunday, July 15, and Monday, July 16 2012. OK so it should have been two videos, but I didn’t take enough footage of De Smet. In fact, I originally meant to leave…
Curriculm Guides Going Out of Print
At LauraPalooza Ann Weller Dahl announced that her curriculum guides for use with the Little House books would be going out of print. This two volume set was introduced in the 1990s and has been well known in Laura circles.…
Do You Remember Carly Rose Sonenclar? | Beyond Little House
You might if you saw her as Carrie in Little House on the Prairie, The Musical. Have you seen Carly Rose lately though? She’s a contestant on The X Factor. Click here to check out her audition video. Wow!
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