Today I got the flyer for the opening and Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas Tree Exhibit at the Hoover Presidential Library. A Little House Christmas November 20 – January 2, 2011 Twenty trees decorated in the traditions of Laura Ingalls Wilder…
BLH Contributors In the News
The Chronicle Times in Cherokee, Iowa posted a recent story about Beyond Little House’s own Sarah Uthoff. BLH contributor and Homesteader editor Sandra Hume’s story “Little Trip on the Prairie,” which chronicles her family’s trip to Pepin, Walnut Grove and…
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Women’s Duty at the Polls
Now that women in Missouri have been given the right to vote for President of the United States and the prospect is good that they will be granted full franchise in the state, it will be interesting to observe how…
Updates on Wilder Exhibit in Dearborn MI
Here’s their updated brochure. It now includes some of the places that have loaned items for the exhibit. Updated Flyer Sarah S. Uthoff blogs at TrundleBed Tales; look for her on Twitter and YouTube.
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A Conversation With the Author of The Heroine’s Bookshelf
We are in the presence of greatness. Here, stopping in to Beyond Little House, is none other than Erin Blakemore. Why do I know that name? you’re thinking. Well, most likely it’s because Erin holds a distinction formerly attained by…
Grab a Burger In Brookings
When I travel, it’s all about the food. Well before I leave my zip code I am scoping out restaurant reviews and online menus and mapping locations of the cool new (or new to me) restaurants I want to try.…
A Word from Walnut Grove
Walnut Grove. It’s a town Laura never even mentioned by name in her books, and yet the town that more people associate with her than any other, thanks to Michael Landon’s television series. I think most Laura fans hold a…
Hoover Presidential Library Uploads Wilder Exhibit Video
At Laurapalooza this year Bill Anderson said this Fall’s Wilder exhibit at the University of Michigan-Dearborn was the biggest since the Hoover exhibit in 1995. I’m so glad that as part of it’s new YouTube site the Herbert Hoover Presidential…
LauraPalooza Homesteader, “Nellie’s” show, and more …
I have a hard time not thinking of Rocky Ridge Day (which hasn’t been held since 2002) every time October rolls around. Sigh. I’m saying hello to you folks from the top of a hole, which I’ve burrowed myself into…
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A Little House Christmas Swap
There’s just something awfully cozy about the thought of a Little House Christmas, isn’t there? And as the weather has just turned quite chilly in my part of the country, thoughts of Christmas are beginning to fill my head anyway.…