When fans finish the Little House series, they often move on to other things Laura wrote, including her columns in The Missiouri Ruralist. Although some fans don’t like these as they are different in tone and style the “Little House”…
Author: Sarah Uthoff
The “Other” Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Roadshow Comes to South Dakota | Beyond Little House
This summer at roughly the same time that LauraPalooza was going on, PBS show Antique Roadshow came to film in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Since this is near De Smet when I visited there on my way home from the…
Posted in Announcements Tagged with: Antique Roadshow, Harvey Dunn, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mildred Boyle, PBS, South Dakota Public Broadcasting
Watch Jeopardy Today
Roland Frank Rydstrom of the De Smet Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society asked us to pass this along. Please tune in to JEOPARDY Friday, October 26th. A special Laura Ingalls Wilder-related answer/question will be featured in the new episode! The…
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Quilts
Episode 35 of Trundlebed Tales featured one of the speakers from LauraPalooza, talking about Quilts and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Listen as I talk quilts with quilt historian Linda Halpin. We explore trends in quilts during Laura Ingalls Wilder’s lifetime and…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Crafting, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Linda Halplin, Quilting with Laura, quilts, Sarah Uthoff, Trundlebed Tales
Memberships 2012-2013
I want to report that having sent out the last batch of cards and letters on Monday, everyone who renewed or joined LIWLRA between June 1, 2012 and now (October 19, 2012) should have received a letter and membership card.…
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The October Blizzard: 131st Anniversary
Due to some technical difficulties this post is delayed from yesterday. Every year as October 15th (and it is the 15th although some secondary sources list the 13th which I assume was a typo that’s been mindlessly copied) I start…
Laura Days in Pepin WI Trip 2012 Day 2
I hope you enjoyed Day of my trip to Laura Days in Pepin, Wisconsin. Get ready for Day 2 Setting up for Laura Days, putting on the finishing touches Information Booth, Get tickets here! Vendor Area including Raffle Quilt Spelling…
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Laura Days in Pepin WI Trip 2012 Day 1
During the last few years of my trips to Pepin, Wisconsin for Laura Days I’ve been taking footage. I wanted to put together showing all the things that you could do in Pepin. Every time I come home without footage…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Barn Quilts, Burr Oak, Burr Oak IA, Garden Pub, Homesites, Museums and Attractions, Hotel Winnishiek, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum, Little House Travel, Pepin, Pepin Motel, Pepin WI, Pepin's Laura Days, Sarah Uthoff, Steve Luse, Trundlebed Tales
Little House Values Still Worthwhile Today
Guest post by Ann Weller Dahl Three generations of readers have enjoyed the classics by Laura Ingalls Wilder known collectively as the “Little House” books. One reason is that the values that were important to the Ingalls and the Wilders…
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LauraPalooza 2012 Days 5 and 6 Videos
Welcome to Days 5 and 6 of LauraPalooza, Sunday, July 15, and Monday, July 16 2012. OK so it should have been two videos, but I didn’t take enough footage of De Smet. In fact, I originally meant to leave…