Welcome to Day 4 of LauraPalooza, Saturday, July 13, 2012. We finish up the last day in Mankato, Minnesota and then head out to Walnut Grove where we visit the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum and Fragments of a Dream, the…
Year: 2013
Day 3 LauraPalooza July 13 2012
Welcome to Day 3 of LauraPalooza, Friday, July 13, 2012. We have three videos for today. The middle one has a long bit of Barbara Walker’s speech, I hope you enjoy it. Note that YouTube has started a stabilization feature.…
Day 2 LauraPalooza July 12 2012 | Beyond Little House
Day 2 of the LauraPalooza conference was July 12, 2012. There are two videos for the general events of the day. I finally did get around to finishing the videos for the Legacy Luncheon, but my uploading program didn’t like…
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Day 1 LauraPalooza July 11 2012 | Beyond Little House
Due to extending registration and a delay from the college print shop on the customized maps they offered us, registration information packets were delayed. We didn’t quite realize how long before the conference some people indicated they were going to…
No LauraPalooza 2013 | Beyond Little House
We’ve gotten some questions lately about LauraPalooza aka the National Conference of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association and I wanted to clarify. So far we’ve held the conference twice, once in 2010 and once in 2012. Our…
The First Four Years; Chapter 2: Section 8 | Beyond Little House
Guest post by Melissa Litke The First Four Years, this is everyone’s favorite Little House book, right? Ha! When I was in third grade and received the yellow paperback set of Little House books for Christmas, I sat right down…
Burr Oak Flooded During Festival 2013 – Museum Needs Help! | Beyond Little House
Bridge After Flood 1 Damage If you haven’t been paying attention this has been another bad year for Iowa floods. Heavy rains in the river basins have brought about repeated flooding around the state. The federal government has declared 47…
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…
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…