I’m embarrassed to say that I never finished sending out my Christmas cards this year. So, if you usually receive a card from us, well, I offer my most humble apologies and my promise to do better next year. After…
Year: 2013
A Laura Christmas Around the Country
Linked Image From a 2011 performance, Click the image to find more As I posted earlier, there are a lot of productions now of Little House Christmas and Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas. If you haven’t heard of them before, check…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Dale Cockrell, Events, Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas, Laura's Legacy, Little House Christmas, Little House Travel, Voice of the Prairie
Annual Christmas Shopping Guide 2013
Whether you are looking for the perfect present for the Laura Ingalls Wilder fan in your life or just what you want to know what to put on your Christmas want list, check out these suggestions. This is the fourth…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Burr Oak IA, Christmas Shopping, De Smet SD, Dr. George Tann, Gifts for the Laura Ingalls Wilder fan, Homesites, Museums and Attractions, Ingalls Homestead, Jack's treats, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder: Life of a Pioneer Girl, Laura's Engagement Ring, Laura's Legacy, Loftus Store, Malone NY, Mansfield MO, Ozark Public Television, Pepin WI, Spring Valley MN, W.H.D. Koerner, Walnut Grove MN
Little House Christmas
It’s beginning to be a holiday tradition in some parts of the country, right beside productions of The Nutcracker, Christmas Carol, and White Christmas are productions of a least two separate versions A Little House Christmas and A Laura Ingalls…
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Season 2013 Ends
October usually is about the end of the main Laura Ingalls Wilder season for the year. If you plan a Laura trip during or after October, make sure you call ahead. They may or may not be able to accommodate…
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Hide and Seek aka Where to Find Us Online
Sometimes don’t you wish that tracking people’s communication today was as easy as watching those telegraph lines Laura described swoop by the train windows? There is just so much out there online and off that it can be hard to…
What’s that 1.40 Worth Today? | Beyond Little House
Wearing my replica ring A lot of times people ask about the engagement ring that is generally accepted as the one Laura received from Almanzo as pictured in the 1885 Montgomery Ward Catalog. It’s given a list price of $1.40,…
Posted in LIW-Related Items Tagged with: Almanzo Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura's Engagement Ring, Value of Money, Walnut Grove
A Scream in the Night
I never sleep through the night anymore and last night was no different. So when I woke up at 3am, my first thought was actually relief that it would be another three hours till my alarm went off signaling the…
Walnut Grove Pageant FAQs
The Ingalls Family Take a Portrait During the Fragments of a Dream Pageant I’m sharing with permission the FAQs listed on the back of the pageant program. I think they may be of use for people planning their trip. I’ve…
Status Update
A couple of questions came in from various channels after the post about our donation went live and as they taught me in my Teaching Methods classes, if one person asks a question there are at least a few more…