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…
Category: Writings About Laura
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 – 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 – Crying Hard Times | Beyond Little House
My favorite Little House book has always been “On the Banks of Plum Creek”. As a child, I thought living in a dugout was quite fascinating and romantic. I never thought about bugs crawling down the walls or mud falling…
Prairie Fires Readalong – Indian Summers | Beyond Little House
Prairie Fires presents a vast amount of information, which can make some members hesitate in participating in the readalong. If you’re feeling intimidated, it might be because you’ve been lulled into the belief that an attempt at narrative nonfiction must…
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Prairie Fires Readalong – Maiden Rock | Beyond Little House
Rich people are easy to write about. They tend to leave a legacy – letters, photographs, records of their lives. Poor people, on the other hand, leave little behind – a family Bible, maybe, a cherished photo or two. This,…
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Prairie Fires Readalong – On The Frontier | Beyond Little House
At the beginning of “On the Frontier,” Caroline Fraser describes the Big Woods in a way that is reminiscent of Laura’s description at the beginning of “Little House in the Big Woods,” even including a quote from the book. However,…