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All of De Smet United In New Web Site Venture

Finally! Everyone in De Smet is on the same page. Or the same web page, anyway. Check out Destination Laura. It’s a new web site developed by the town of De Smet in conjunction with the traveling musical to promote…

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The Long Winter, Ch. 5: After the Storm

Great Auk By guest contributor Sommer Sorenson This chapter opens up on the morning after a three-day storm. It is silent, eerily so, and Laura is trying to make out why it seems so strange. With excitement she realizes the…

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Announcing LauraPalooza 2010: Legacies

Read all about it: LAURAPALOOZA 2010: Conference Celebrating Laura Ingalls Wilder Hits Minnesota in July

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Do You Like Us? Do You Really Like Us?

The folks behind Beyond Little House want to know what you think of what we’re doing here. Do you find the site useful? Why do you like it? What does it offer you? We’re compiling testimonials to display on the…

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LauraPalooza Details

You asked for it. Here they are–the details on LauraPalooza 2010: Legacies. Click on the image below to a PDF with all the pertinent info. Questions? Write beyondlittlehouse at gmail dot com.

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More on Little House Politics

An interview you might be interested in reading, with Dr. John J. Fry, professor of history at Trinity Christian College in Chicago, discussing the politics of Laura Ingalls Wilder, was published today. Read it here and feel free to comment…

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Fall Fun at the Wilder Homesites

Just because summer’s over, don’t think the fun at the Laura Ingalls Wilder homesites has to end!! This weekend — September 12-13 — celebrate Laura Ingalls Wilder Days in Pepin, Wisconsin — the Little House in the Big Woods. And…

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We briefly interrupt talk of all things Little House to take care of some blog business. Due to excessive amounts of spam left in the comments section on this blog in recent weeks (by robots, not real people), we are…

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From Oprah to Guideposts, Little House Has Something for Everyone

More than fifty years after her death, Laura Ingalls Wilder is still changing lives. Read this heartwarming article in Guideposts magazine about a little girl who came to understand the meaning of family through a visit to the Little House…

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Ask the Experts: A Little House Wedding?

I am getting married next summer and as I have been a huge LIW fan my whole life, I would like to include something LIW into my wedding…I think I’m looking for a quote to put on the programs or…

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