Thank you to those who participated in our recent The Wilder Life (by Wendy McClure) book giveaway. Wow! There were some great stories and I’m sure everyone enjoyed reading them all. Maybe a few of you even learned a fact…
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Christmas Eve on Silver Lake
Grace’s Christmas present was to be the most beautiful of all. They had all worked at it together in the warm room, for Grace was so little that she didn’t notice. Ma had taken the swan’s skin from its careful…
More from Dean about Nashville Event
Dean posted this in a comment below and I thought it was worth bumping up: I’m really grateful that Sandra and Connie agreed to help coordinate audience participation for Pa’s Fiddle by members of our Little House community. For those…
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January 6 in Nashville: You’re Invited to a Little House Musical Event
In partnership with Dean Butler’s Legacy Documentaries/Peak Moore Enterprises, Dale Cockrell, president of Pa’s Fiddle Recordings, will be overseeing a musical extravaganza in just six short weeks. On the afternoon and evening of Friday, January 6, Nashville’s Loveless Barn will…
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The American Spirit
“The food administration now becomes a great machine of mercy destined to carry the American spirit into the homes and hearts of a great host of bewildered, confused human beings, hungry, discouraged, saddened, submerged by the wreckage resulting from the…
A Wilder Giveaway!
Wendy McClure’s book, The Wilder Life, has been chosen for the first round of the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Memoir & Autobiography category! Make sure you take a trip over to Goodreads before Nov. 20th and vote. In recognition…
The Joy of Learning
The topic that had been given me for my club lesson was music. Now the only instrument I can play is the phonograph and I venture to sing only in a crowd where I can drown my voice in the…
Christmas Event at Rocky Ridge
Earlier when I did a post about the closing dates of all the homesites, I asked a follow up question about whether they’d be having a Christmas event. Mansfield thought they might have one, but weren’t sure yet at that…
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Membership Reminder
Last week I mailed out 25 more new memberships and renewals, including one each to Denmark, Sweden and Italy. So, now that I’m caught up, I’m going to start e-mailing out direct reminders to those of you who haven’t renewed…
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An Autumn Day
King Winter has sent warning of his coming! There was a delightful freshness in the air the other morning, and all over the low places lay the first frost of the season. What a beautiful world this is! Have you…