guest post by Erin Blakemore and Sandra Hume So we had this whole dialogue planned out for this section. Fire, devastation, uplift. The End. Easy, right? Yeah, not so much. The end of The First Four Years is pretty much as…
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Little House in Simi Valley Part 2
One of the questions we often get is “how can I visit the movie ranch where the Little House on the Prairie NBC series was filmed?” We’ve gotten it enough that I pursued it to get the full scoop. As…
The First Four Years; Chapter 4: Section 13
Guest post by Suzanne Falck-Yi Last week, a hailstorm shredded my garden. I was standing at a window near my office at the local college, thinking of Laura and Manly in their first four years, watching marbles of ice pour…
Overcoming Our Difficulties
“A difficulty raiseth the spirit of a great man. He hath a mind to wrestle with it and give it a fall. A man’s mind must be very low if the difficulty doth not make part of his pleasure.” By…
The First Four Years; Chapter 4: Section 12
Guest post by Barbara Mayes Boustead The 1880s were a cruel decade in the Dakota Territory and elsewhere on the Plains. Winters were brutally cold and snowy, with vicious blizzards (extra credit if you can remember which winter was the…
Laura Legacy Award Ceremony 2012
During LauraPalooza 2012, we had the second Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy Award presentation ceremony. This award is presented to someone living who has strongly contributed to improving Laura Ingalls Wilder fandom. The award was first presented to William T.…
Happy Anniversary
Laura and Almanzo sat waiting. In the center of the sitting room a marble-topped table stood on a crocheted rag rug. On the wall was a large colored picture of a woman clinging to a white cross planted on a…
Malone Unveils Schoolhouse
The Almanzo Wilder Farm has finished its replica one-room school project and is unveiling it in a big event with guest speakers this Saturday. Sadly I won’t be going, but board member Connie Neumann is so we look forward to…
The First Four Years; Chapter 4: Section 11
Guest post by Melanie Fishbane We leave the third year behind, a year where Manly suffered the stroke that would leave him partially paralyzed for the rest of his life. The stroke that probably meant that he could no longer…
As They Say, “Totes Adorbs” | Beyond Little House
So I’m not “friends” with Kevin “Almanzo from the musical” Massey on Facebook, ’cause that would be weird, but I did visit his page recently on a whim to see if perhaps he’d posted some wedding pictures for public consumption,…
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