Do you remember my post a few weeks back about snow storms in October? Well, after an unseasonably warm and sunny November, it appears our Minnesota winter will arrive tomorrow–with a vengeance. The forecast calls for 5 to 8 inches…
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LIWLRA T-Shirts!
We’re celebrating the founding of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association with T-shirts! The shirts are baby pink with brown ink, and the design, created by MSU alum Kristina Sukalski, features Laura Ingalls Wilder in a signature font…
A Rose in December
…a Rose in December (is) much rarer than a rose in June, and must be paid for accordingly. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder, in The First Four Years This quotation has been going through my head for the last month, every time…
Laura? Laura Wilder? Laura Ingalls Wilder? Mrs. AJ Wilder?
I’ve been doing a lot of writing about Laura lately. On the one side I’m crafting various drafts of a press release about LauraPalooza. On the other, I’m creating reprint articles as well as working on myriad new articles for…
What’s the Best Age to Read the Little House Books?
Today I got an email from a friend. She knew about my Laura Ingalls Wilder obsession interest and she was holiday shopping for her niece. She asked me what would be a good age for someone to start reading the…
Tentative LauraPalooza Schedule
We’re still at the anything-can-change stage, since proposals and papers are still coming in. The full schedule will be available on February 7, 2010, Laura’s birthday. But here’s what we’re looking at tentatively (with everything subject to change): Thursday morning,…
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving dinner was good. Pa had shot a wild goose for it. Ma had to stew the goose because there was no fireplace, and no oven in the little stove. But she made dumplings in the gravy. There were corn…
Sloo and Slough
When I was in De Smet this summer, we were talking about the Big Slough and as always a quote from Emily of Deep Valley popped into my head. Other people in the conference planning group said they had the…
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Being Thankful
When Laura shares her feelings of thankfulness with her Missouri Ruralist readers, she makes note of all the things we sometimes don’t take the time to be thankful for, the everyday things to which we never give a thought. Inasmuch…
LauraPalooza Details
You asked for it. Here they are–the details on LauraPalooza 2010: Legacies. Click on the image below to a PDF with all the pertinent info. Questions? Write beyondlittlehouse at gmail dot com.