Guest post by Susan Barton Malphurs Another bone-chilling sunrise, more ravaging winds with “wild voices,” yet Pa sings. He calls to Caroline that he is headed to the barn, but the fires are going. Ma advises the girls to remain…
New Pageant at De Smet 2010
De Smet Pageant The De Smet News carried a big article on the De Smet Pageant. This year for the first time they are going to do an adaption of The First Four Years. The script was written by Orval…
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Long Winter Chapter 12: Alone
I have to restrain myself from starting this post in my finest Dickensian style: “Alone: In which the family begins to speculate about how MUCH trouble they’re in, and how truly dire this winter will be.” We open this chapter…
The Long Winter, Chapter 11: Pa Goes to Volga
The blizzard that sent Laura and Carrie home from school is finally over. (Except it’s Tuesday, and the blizzard started on Friday, which makes it four days by my count. But I digress.) The first mention is made of the…
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A Word About Vending at LauraPalooza …
Folks, we’re only going to allow those vendors who display a concerted emphasis on items that directly relate to Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, or the Little House sites. We’ve also got limited space for such vending. (I’ve been…
Kara Lindsay Takes Leave of Absence from “Little House”
Kara Lindsay, “Laura” in Little House: The Musical, has taken a leave of absence from the production. She’ll return in Spokane on April 8. As of now, I’ve been unable to find information on why she left, and I would…
The Long Winter, Ch. 10: Three Days’ Blizzard
Guest post by Susan Hundt This chapter gives us an enticing glimpse of Almanzo and Royal’s day-to-day life, as well as some depth to Almanzo as a character as his adult back story is introduced to readers for the first…
Sign Up for More Long Winter Chapters
Our read-along is taking the slow train through the Tracy cut, but it is coming. Got a chapter in mind that you’d love to cover? Feel compelled to document when the family decides to crowd into the kitchen? (“No Trains”)…
Issue 16, Winter 2009-2010
The newest issue of the Homesteader is complete and ready for order. In this issue: extensive follow-up interviews with Kara “Laura” Lindsay and Kevin “Almanzo” Wilder, from the traveling Little House musical an update and more details on LauraPalooza, this…
Walnut Grove’s Making a Classroom Cookbook
Nicole Elzenga, Collections Manager at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, tells Beyond Little House that the museum is working on another cookbook to add to their collection. (“Tastes of Plum Creek: Volume II” was published in 2005…