Almanzo Wilder
Laura: A Documentary
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.
Dean Butler, whom many will remember as the actor who played Almanzo Wilder on the Little
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Lessons from Laura
Mansfield, Missouri, held its annual Little Laura/Little Farmer Boy contest this past weekend.
I asked my seven-year-old niece if she wanted to wear her prairie dress and participate in the contest. “No,” she answered without hesitation. “I want to be in a Mary contest.”
Did I mention my niece is blonde?
I find it somewhat amusing that almost
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From Spring Valley, Minn.
The Man of the Place and I went camping in Forestville Mystery Cave State Park, Minnesota, this weekend. This gorgeous area, full of rolling farmland and clear trout streams, offers a bounty of natural resources. It’s no wonder, then, that James and Angeline Day Wilder settled here, in Spring Valley, in 1870. They stayed until
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Happy Anniversary!
Today we celebrate the 124th wedding anniversary of Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
In honor of the day, let’s share what we love best about the romance or relationship between the two (this can be either during their courtship or during the marriage)!
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Little House Traveler
Re-reading Little House Traveler this weekend, I was struck by two particular things:
1. Despite the fact that she presumably had a decent income by the time she made her trip back to South Dakota with Almanzo, Laura was compelled to track her finances in her journal.
2. She and Almanzo were farmers to the bone; their
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Boys like Laura, too, don't they?
In a conversation with my sister-cousin, Nicole Kohls, this weekend, talk turned to Little House.
Now, Nic is one of the cousins, along with her sister Sara, who regularly played with my sister, Tracy, and I when we were small. Games often included long-ranging arguments over who would make the best Mary, who should be Laura,
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Notes on a Mini-LauraPalooza
I finally stood in Plum Creek today.
Tiny minnows swum up and down the creek bed, easily seen in crystal clear water just a few inches deep. From the bank on which I stood, I could look up and directly at the site of the dugout featured in On the Banks of Plum Creek. I remembered
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Where History is Preserved…
I recently returned from my first Little House trip of the year, and felt I just had to share about the wonderful experience I had at one of the homesites. You often hear lovely stories about visits to Mansfield, to De Smet, to Walnut Grove… but I had a delightful time at a site that
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On Horses and Oysters
After Sandra referred to Almanzo Wilder as “The Oyster” in her last post, Laura W expressed her curiosity in the comments as to what this was all about. I decided to post the answer rather than reply to Laura as others of you may be curious as well, and it’s an interesting story.
In early 1937,
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Lazy, Lousy Reprise
With apologies, rather than write a brand-new post I’m going to revisit Eliza Jane. With such insightful, sophisticated comments, it seems a shame not to.
Dawn wrote:
Is it possible that it was just true? That she was annoying and meddling? Maybe they didn’t see it as defamation because maybe (who knows) they used to talk about
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