“He let a last note quiver far, far away, until it dissolved in the moonlight. Everything was so beautiful that Laura wanted it to stay so forever.”
Quote #5
Wow, you guys are serious contenders, here!
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“Every seam must be exactly right before Ma would let her make another, and often Laura worked several days on one short seam.”
Quote #4
“Again there was silence, except for the crunch of their feet on the snow-covered path.”
Quote #3
“Even in songs Ma did not approve of gambling, but her toe could not stop tapping while Pa played such tunes.”
Happy Anniversary!
Today we celebrate the 124th wedding anniversary of Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
In honor of the day, let’s share what we love best about the romance or relationship between the two (this can be either during their courtship or during the marriage)!
Call for Paper Proposals: LauraPalooza 2010: Legacies
Now forming: The Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association, which is the official organization sponsoring the LP 2010 conference. As we work out the legal details of membership and charters, we’ll continue to update all of you.
Meanwhile, we take this opportunity, on Laura and Almanzo’s wedding anniversary, to start the distribution of our call for paper proposals for this summer’s conference.
Download the Call for Proposals flyer here for printing or distributing.
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Call for Paper Proposals, LauraPalooza 2010: Legacies
Sponsored by the newly formed Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association and the Department of Mass Communications at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
We invite submissions of paper proposals for review and possible acceptance for presentation at the first LauraPalooza conference, to be held on the campus of MSU, Mankato, July 15-17, 2010.
The theme of this year’s conference, Legacies, reflects interest in the continuing influence of the lives and stories of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, on American culture, history, values and ideological practice. Such influence includes:
• The broad influence the stories have had on American popular culture in the last 75 years
• The history of the books and their cultural, educational, political, and social influences
• The renewed interest in women’s handwork as cultural artifacts of women’s history
• The preservation of American folk music ways
• The preservation of American food ways
• The strategic and political influence of farming and farming culture in American history
• The long-term ramifications of the 1862 Homestead Act on Western culture
• The ever-widening circle of Lane’s politically Libertarian belief structures
• Historical racism and its lasting effects
• New discoveries in individual research that add to the Lane and Wilder legacies
• Any other way you might interpret the legacies of Wilder and Lane.
Submit your proposal in the form of a 700 to 1,000 word abstract, outlining your idea and research, by midnight on December 15, 2009. Be sure to include all contact information. Abstracts should be sent via email to [email protected], conference chair. Acceptance notifications will be sent out via email on the birth date of Laura Ingalls Wilder: February 7. Those with accepted proposals will be expected to register for and attend the LauraPalooza 2010: Legacies conference.
Information and updates about LP 2010 may be found at http://www.beyondlittlehouse.com.
Quote #2:
So far, everyone who’s posted (I can see them in the moderation cue) is correct! This is going to be a tight contest, I can tell. I can also tell that I have to make these quotes a little harder.
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“Everyone was busy now, for all the garden vegetables must be stored away.”
Quote Contest: Rules and First Quote
OK, to make this fair, we’re holding all comments on each of these quotes in moderation for a full 72 hours. This means no copying-and-pasting! Once those comments are posted, the entries for that quote are closed.
We will post one quote a day for the next two weeks.
All folks who get the correct book, chapter and scene for every quote of the two weeks will be put in the drawing through random.org for a copy of my new book, More than a Farmer’s Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910-1960. (If there is more than one person who gets all the quotes right. But I suspect there are some hard-core know-it-all folks out there! )
Ready?
Set?
Go!
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“Mr. Paddock and Mr. Thompson were standing by the round-bellied stove, looking at a piece of hickory and talking about it.”
New Contest Starts on Monday!
Sharpen your pencils, get out your books, and get ready for a new contest here at Beyond Little House.
Starting Monday, we’ll be posting a different quote every day from the original eight Little House books. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to find the book, chapter and scene from which that quote is drawn. They’ll get progressively harder over the next two weeks.
Everyone who gets all answers correct will be put in a drawing through random.org for a brand-new, autographed copy of my new book, More than a Farmer’s Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910-1960.
As Jeff Probst always asks, “Worth playing for?”
Happy hunting!
Whatever Happened to Mary Power?
This question has been a common one over the decades, with not much of an answer available until recent years. Gina Terrana, who has researched the life of Mary Power and published articles on her in the Laura Ingalls Wilder Lore and in The Homesteader, is now offering a print-it-yourself pamphlet including pictures and detailed information on Mary Power’s life in exchange for a donation to your local food bank. Visit Gina’s site for more information and to request the pamphlet. Thanks, Gina!
(On a side note, do you ever wonder what impact you may have in the future, regardless of how insignificant your life may seem today? I was just thinking about Mary Power, who was just an average person leading an average life, who just happened to be friends with someone who would make her known and beloved to millions of readers worldwide after her death… and 80 years later, is still impacting the world as people feed the hungry in order to obtain information about her… now that’s something to marvel at! Don’t you think she’d be pleased (not to mention astonished!)?)