Those of you who keep up with Dean Butler’s Legacy Documentaries blog are probably as pleased as we are at the recent announcement that the Laura Ingalls Wilder project he has hoped and planned for is officially coming to fruition.…
Laura: A Documentary
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Pa’s Beard
Pa’s beard has always been a huge bone of contention between TV show and book fans. Landon’s lack of a beard is almost always mentioned in early critiques of the show by book fans and I still hear mentioned on…
Little Great Auk
Great Auk Near the beginning of The Long Winter the Ingalls family discover a strange marine bird. It’s nearly frozen and they nurse it back to life, but nothing they have to feed it seems to go down. They said…
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Grasshoppers… at Church!?
You just never know when you’re going to stumble upon new Laura information — but I certainly didn’t expect it at church. Sunday morning, I sat in the family pew as usual, listening to the sermon. The pastor began to…
Laura the Teacher (on TV)
I like to leave my DVR set to record episodes of Little House on the Prairie — five at a time — and from time to time I check to see which ones it’s got loaded. Today I’m glad I…
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Will 2009-2010 be another Long Winter?
I know; I did the math. This winter is NOT a 21st winter. However, we in Minnesota had snow two weeks ago, and the Dakotas had a blizzard. In October. Sound familiar? No one’s been reduced to twisting hay yet;…
My Betsy-Tacy Conversion
When I decided to attend the Laurapalooza conference in Mankato, Minnesota, next year, I knew that I just had to read the Betsy-Tacy books. I’d heard of Maud Hart Lovelace, her books and her tie to Mankato, so it seemed…
My Betsy-Tacy Convert
Betsy-Tacy fans know how to have fun. Little House fans have fun too — but I have to say that Betsy-Tacy fans have us beat, hands down. What is Betsy-Tacy and what does this have to do with Little House?…
A New Voice for the Blog
I’m a new voice appearing here on Beyond Little House. I was supposed to be posting all along, but an illness this spring and its after effects have kept me from posting before now. I hope I am back to…
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More Notes on the Play (And More Spoilers)
I’ve done some googling to remind myself more of the play, since I didn’t take notes during the performance. This document (what a find!) provided me with a few additional notes: Almanzo and Cap hunt the wheat onstage during the…