Laura’s Legacy
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For Your Download Pleasure: The Long Winter Radio Show
Courtesy of Homeschool Radio Shows via Homeschool Freebie of the Day — this just in:
An audio of a radio show that dramatizes The Long Winter. It’s old-fashioned and lovely. I just finished listening to it.
Here’s what Homeschool Radio Shows has to say about it:
By popular demand, we again present this fine interpretation of Laura Ingalls
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Founding the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association
I’ve been working behind the scenes for several weeks, now, to create the organization that makes LauraPalooza possible. It began with discussions last summer, as the group behind Beyond Little House, and several of our online friends, met in De Smet to work out plans for the conference. It became evident that, even with the
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Miss Kirkus and Her Discoveries (Laura’s Editors, Part 1)
Kirkus Reviews has been in the news recently, following the December announcement that the book review service would be closing down after 76 years. Unless you work in a library or bookstore you’ve probably never even seen a print copy of Kirkus Reviews, but chances are you’ve read a review from Kirkus on a book
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Pondering Snowdrifts …
I remember thinking, when I read that Pa survived a blizzard by tunneling under a bank into a snowdrift–many, many years ago–that the drift must have been mighty big.
I grew up in Wisconsin, and I’ve seen my share of big snows. But in an age where fleets of snowplows and salt-and-sand trucks strike out in
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A Little House Christmas Tree
There’s something about Christmas that makes people think “Little House.” Something about those Christmases of long ago that people connect with. The simplicity… the joy… it’s what people want their Christmas to be like.
And yet so often it’s not, is it?
I’m having a stress-free Christmas this year. I’m not traveling. Not cooking. Not baking. I
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Yes, Mary and Laura, There Is a Santa Claus
“Ma!” Laura cried. “There IS a Santa Claus, isn’t there?”
“Of course there’s a Santa Claus,” said Ma. She set the iron on the stove to heat again.
“The older you are, the more you know about Santa Claus,” she said. “You are so big now, you know he can’t be just one man, don’t you? You
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New Photo Group, and A New Contributor, Too!
Wendy McClure here, your newest contributor at Beyond Little House! I’m a writer from Chicago currently finishing a book about my year revisiting the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder. When I’m not agonizing over my rough draft (I know the plural of “Ingalls” is “Ingallses,” but I keep forgetting to type it that way) I’ll
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Contemporary Lessons from The Long Winter
Lizzie Skurnick, author of the recently released Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, used to write a column on Jezebel dissecting the young-adult novels we read as kids–and likely reread as adults. (Her book is based on these columns, and Farmer Boy is the Little House book that’s up for the reread
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Blizzard Warnings in Southern Minnesota
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 of snow with winds reaching 45 miles per hour.
I wonder if I’ll be able to see
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A Little House Christmas
This time of year, some folks get caught up in the hustle and bustle and stress of the holiday season, while others keep things much more simple. Still others feel caught in the former group while wishing they were part of the second — and reflecting upon the simple but oh so happy Christmases of
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