Month: June 2013

Roll Along Wagon Train! | Beyond Little House

Does anyone want to experience a wagon train? Check out this article in the online Jamestown (N. Dakota) Sun about the 44th annual Fort Seward Wagon Train. I asked my husband if he would do it with me next year…

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The First Four Years; Chapter 2: Section 7 | Beyond Little House

Guest post by Naomi December 5th, we are told, is a bright and sunny day.  Just the sort of day one might spot a Rose through the snow.  But Laura doesn’t feel like playing outside in the snow.  She would…

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The First Four Years; Chapter 2: Section 6 | Beyond Little House

I believe I may just have ended up with the section with the least going on, but I gave it my best shot! It was a beautiful day, that twenty-fifth of August, 1886, when Manly and Laura moved to the…

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Put it on Paper | Beyond Little House

“Put It On Paper” is the name of an exhibit at the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing, Michigan. Barbara Mayes Boustead gave us a heads up about this as she attempted to access The Long Winter manuscript held by the…

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Laura Ingalls Wilder on Dakota Life | Beyond Little House

You might have heard me mention something about having to get to De Smet after LauraPalooza this last year. This news story and a second story they’ve delayed on Pioneer Girl are why. Dakota Life is a TV magazine on…

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The First Four Years; Chapter 1: Section 5 | Beyond Little House

Guest post by Tatiana The draw of Laura to me is the strong connection to nature and the flow of life – and as an aspiring writer, what a wonderful storyteller was Laura is. Here in part 5, from the…

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A Little House Love Story | Beyond Little House

They met while playing Laura and Almanzo in Little House on the Prairie – The Musical in 2008. They fell in love. And on June 2nd they were married. Congratulations to Kara Lindsay and Kevin Massey!

Posted in Little House in the News, Musical–Little House on the Prairie