Lake Pepin Beach A women’s club named the Farmgirls has decided to do a Laura trip/service project. It started with one chapter, but grew to include members from multiple groups. They are doing a link of the entire Laura homesite …
Farmgirls Do the Circuit
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And One More on the Way: Jolly Green Giant
As part of our conference countdown, I’m going to start a new series of postings of possible places you might want to add to your Wilder conference trip. Some will be Laura related, others are just kind of neat tourist…
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BLH Contributor in FamilyFun Magazine: “Little Trip on the Prairie” (June/July 2010)
Do you subscribe to FamilyFun magazine? If so, turn to page 47 in the current issue, which is June/July 2010. I wrote a “Family Getaways” story about visiting the Little House sites in Pepin, Wanut Grove, and De Smet. Lots…
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Bonnets or Birkenstocks? Clothes at LauraPalooza
One of our members raised an excellent question in an email last week. What should she wear this summer to LauraPalooza? This question, fraught with potential faux pas and challenging for those flying in, deserves a deeper discussion here on…
The Way Melissa Sees It
When Melissa Anderson (no longer desiring to be called Melissa Sue Anderson as her Little House fans know her) published her book, The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House, reactions from fans were…
Prairie Roses
I was always fascinated by Laura’s sentimentality in naming her first–and ultimately only–child. She named her after the prairie roses that bloomed in June, and it struck me as a particularly whimsical and romantic thing to do, a sign of…
De Smet Pageant Cast Updates
Wilder Bros De Smet Pageant 2009 I hope many of you who attend the conference plan on going on to De Smet and also seeing the pageant there. It really is a different experience than the Walnut Grove conference and…
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New FAQs for LauraPalooza
Going to LauraPalooza? We’ve got an updated FAQ.
Summer Storm … or Late Spring, I Guess
So tonight I was instant-messaging my husband — or to be accurate, he was instant-messaging me — while I was on a call with someone about a Homesteader story. The fellow on the phone was also a Laura Ingalls Wilder…
Rooms for Rent in De Smet
Upstairs Lobby to Deluxe Hotel Every year Mt. Pleasant, Iowa is inundated with visitors for one week around Labor Day weekend during the Midwest Old Threshers celebration. The rest of the year they can support a couple of small hotels,…
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