Epilogue – Definition: a conclusion, comment, postscript, supplement, addendum, postlude, denouement, swan song, peroration. Does it have to be over? I would rather it not. Every time I picked up Prairie Fires I was engaged and interested, much like I…
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Prairie Fires Readalong – There is Gold in the Farm | Beyond Little House
What happened after Laura’s death to shape the way we see everything ‘Little House’ related today? Who were the players and what roles did they play? Does this change what you think or how you think about the legacy of…
Prairie Fires Readalong – Sunshine and Shadow | Beyond Little House
According to Caroline Fraser, Laura Ingalls Wilder often wrote this at beginning of her fan letters about her life: “It is a story filled with sunshine and shadow” (479.) As with everything in Fraser’s book, there is a reason for…
Prairie Fires Readalong – Dusty Old Dust | Beyond Little House
Pick the Dust Bowl chapter, the meteorologist said. I’ll relate to it, she said. Well, I’ll get to talk about the Dust Bowl, but it looks like I’m going to have to talk politics, too. Let’s take a deep breath…
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 – Pioneer Girl | Beyond Little House
This week’s blog was written by Karen and Kevin Pearce Kevin: As I did with chapter 6, here are definitions for words that I had to look up due to the imparity between Fraser’s vocabulary and my own. Once again,…
Prairie Fires Readalong – The Absent Ones | Beyond Little House
When looking at the title of this chapter, the beginning pages of this chapter meshed in my brain to make sense, most of the rest of the chapter made me look at the work absent in a different light. In…
Prairie Fires Readalong – As a Farm Woman Thinks | Beyond Little House
A couple months ago, our minister began her sermon by saying that it is common to hear “They had more time in the old days, even referring to the pioneers” My best friend gave me a pointed look to which…
Prairie Fires Readalong – A World Made | Beyond Little House
One thing that has made reading this book both exciting and humbling for me so far is the fact that Fraser’s vocabulary exceeds mine by leaps and bounds. I just finished writing my doctoral dissertation, so I’d hardly consider myself…
Prairie Fires Readalong – Don’t Leave the Farm Boys | Beyond Little House
I have to admit, I feel a bit like Laura as she is writing her composition on “Ambition” not quite sure what angle to take on my chapter, nor whether or not I’m doing it “correctly”…. that said let’s delve…