The Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association (LIWLRA) today announced registration for LauraPalooza 2019: All Roads Lead to Laura, the only academic and fan gathering celebrating the literary, historical, and cultural impact of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little…
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Prairie Fires Readalong – A Ruined Country | Beyond Little House
Guest Blog Post by Kristi Martin — This chapter begins with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s journey to visit her past in the prairies. Returning with her husband to DeSmet, South Dakota was a homecoming to a place transformed by time. The…
Prairie Fires Readalong – God Hates a Coward | Beyond Little House
This chapter speaks to me, in a way that probably most of you can identify. It explains the growth and the shift of Laura’s perspective: from early teens to newlywed. This chapter really highlights the last 4 books (have you…
Call for Proposals – LauraPalooza 2019 | Beyond Little House
LauraPalooza 2019 – All Roads Lead to Laura The Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association Conference We invite submissions of paper, panel, and workshop proposals for review and possible acceptance for presentation at the fifth LauraPalooza conference, to be…
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LIWLRA response to the renaming of the ALA Laura Ingalls Wilder award | Beyond Little House
Hello, LIWLRA members and friends, For decades, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a part of the American Library Association (ALA), has granted the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy Award to authors who have contributed, as she did, a…
Protecting their Land: The Ingallses, the Wilders, and the Married Women’s Property Acts | Beyond Little House
Guest Blog Author: Caroline Fraser A few years ago when I was doing research in De Smet for my forthcoming biography, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, I was lucky enough to find in the Loftus Store…