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…
Author: Laura Welser
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…
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!
Melissa Gilbert’s New Book
According to an article on EW.com (Entertainment Weekly), Melissa Gilbert has a new (and her first) picture book in the works. The books title is Daisy and Josephine and will hit store shelves on January 28, 2014. For more details…
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Read-along: The First Four Years
You’ve requested it and here we are finally tackling The First Four Years as a read-along! Since there are only four chapters of varying lengths, I’ve split the chapters as best I could. There are fourteen sections and I’ve tried…
Pioneer Girl Project Update
An update was just posted on the Pioneer Girl Project blog regarding the South Dakota Historical Press publication of the Laura Ingalls Wilder’s previously unpublished biography, Pioneer Girl, which was first scheduled to be released in the summer of 2013.…
Sweets to the Sweet
Rose are red, Violets are blue, Maple syrup is sweet, And Naomi, a jug of it is coming to you! Naomi has been chosen by random.org as the winner of Laura’s birthday giveaway! Here’s what Naomi had to say about…
Happy Birthday to Almanzo!
Close together, Laura and Carrie looked out from the edge of the standing grass. The hayfield was not Pa’s hayfield. A strange wagon stood there and on its rack was an enormous load of hay. On the high top of…
Happy Birthday to Laura!
It’s Laura’s birthday. In the Big Woods of Wisconsin, she was born 146 years ago today. I’m quite certain that she never would have believed that she would have such a following who would be celebrating, not only her birthday,…
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Mary’s Blindness
New research has caused some speculation into exactly what caused Mary’s blindness. Click here to read the article in USA Today and then come back and give your thoughts.