2014 marks the 40th anniversary of both the NBC Little House on the Prairie TV Show and the Walnut Grove Museum and the 140th anniversary of Laura and her family arriving in Walnut Grove. In honor of all that they…
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The First Four Years: After-the-Flood Edition
guest post by Erin Blakemore and Sandra Hume So we had this whole dialogue planned out for this section. Fire, devastation, uplift. The End. Easy, right? Yeah, not so much. The end of The First Four Years is pretty much as…
The First Four Years; Chapter 4: Section 13
Guest post by Suzanne Falck-Yi Last week, a hailstorm shredded my garden. I was standing at a window near my office at the local college, thinking of Laura and Manly in their first four years, watching marbles of ice pour…
The First Four Years; Chapter 4: Section 12
Guest post by Barbara Mayes Boustead The 1880s were a cruel decade in the Dakota Territory and elsewhere on the Plains. Winters were brutally cold and snowy, with vicious blizzards (extra credit if you can remember which winter was the…
Happy Anniversary
Laura and Almanzo sat waiting. In the center of the sitting room a marble-topped table stood on a crocheted rag rug. On the wall was a large colored picture of a woman clinging to a white cross planted on a…
The First Four Years; Chapter 4: Section 11
Guest post by Melanie Fishbane We leave the third year behind, a year where Manly suffered the stroke that would leave him partially paralyzed for the rest of his life. The stroke that probably meant that he could no longer…
The First Four Years; Chapter 3: Section 10 | Beyond Little House
Guest post by Sue Poremba Around the same time I began reading the Little House books, I began reading biographies of famous Americans – mostly presidents and first ladies. Presidential history now fascinates me as much as the life of…
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…
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 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…