October usually is about the end of the main Laura Ingalls Wilder season for the year. If you plan a Laura trip during or after October, make sure you call ahead. They may or may not be able to accommodate…
Laura Ingalls Wilder Season 2013 Ends
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Hide and Seek aka Where to Find Us Online
Sometimes don’t you wish that tracking people’s communication today was as easy as watching those telegraph lines Laura described swoop by the train windows? There is just so much out there online and off that it can be hard to…
What’s that 1.40 Worth Today? | Beyond Little House
Wearing my replica ring A lot of times people ask about the engagement ring that is generally accepted as the one Laura received from Almanzo as pictured in the 1885 Montgomery Ward Catalog. It’s given a list price of $1.40,…
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A Scream in the Night
I never sleep through the night anymore and last night was no different. So when I woke up at 3am, my first thought was actually relief that it would be another three hours till my alarm went off signaling the…
Walnut Grove Pageant FAQs
The Ingalls Family Take a Portrait During the Fragments of a Dream Pageant I’m sharing with permission the FAQs listed on the back of the pageant program. I think they may be of use for people planning their trip. I’ve…
Status Update
A couple of questions came in from various channels after the post about our donation went live and as they taught me in my Teaching Methods classes, if one person asks a question there are at least a few more…
LIWLRA’s First Donation!
Something fabulous is going on. Remember last year? Summer 2012? The Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Assocation organized an amazing Silent Auction at LauraPalooza. Up for bid were all kinds of Little House-related goodies. Thanks to you all—every last…
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The First Four Years: After-the-Flood Edition
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…
Wilder Days 2013 | Beyond Little House
As we reported earlier, it sounds like it’s going to be a great Wilder Days in Mansfield this year. Rocky Ridge Farmhouse Here is the official word: Plans are firming up for 2013’s Wilder Days in Mansfield, Missouri. September 20-21…
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…