Rocky Ridge Farmhouse The Laura Ingalls Wilder/Rose Wilder Lane Home and Museum has been one of the best of the Laura homesites at having a long term goal and working toward it. Early on they set the goal to…
Month: January 2013
Giving and Taking Advice
There were once two men who had different ways of treating their horses when they went around them in the barn. One always spoke to his horses as he passed so that they might know he was there and not…
Kelly Ferguson Interview
Kelly Ferguson, author of My Life as Laura, was recently interviewed via Skype. During the 33 minute interview, Ferguson talks about writing her book (and her good decision to cut chapters where she spoke as Laura), her bad timing of…
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Fandom Roundup 2012
This is the third year the Trundlebed Tales podcast has done a retrospective looking back over the events in Laura Ingalls Wilder fandom. 2012 was a busy year with a lot of events, from the publication of the new edition…
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A Literrarium?
Let’s have a show of hands! Who received a Little House related gift for Christmas this year? I did. And I have in the past and I want my daughter to check this out for the future (hint). Writer and…
Little House in Lund Closes
Little House Store When I do my travel program, one of the stories I always like to tell is how my then boss and traveling companion, Vicki Hughes urged me on despite what I’d been told in town and we…
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A Few Minutes with a Poet
Among my books of verse, there is an old poem that I could scarcely do without. It is “The Fool’s Prayer” by Edward Rowland Sill and every now and then I have been impelled, in deep humiliation of spirit, to…