Tag: Administrivia

Membership Reminder

Last week I mailed out 25 more new memberships and renewals, including one each to Denmark, Sweden and Italy. So, now that I’m caught up, I’m going to start e-mailing out direct reminders to those of you who haven’t renewed

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LauraPalooza… for Kids?

Laurapalooza… for kids? Well, after all, the “Little House” books are kids’ books, right? But little ones at an “academic conference?” When we were planning Laurapalooza 2010, we had some inquiries from the parents of younger Laura fans about its

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Bread Plate for Sale?

Even when the regular contributors are swallowed up by real life, LIW fans are still interacting with one another. Case in point: Pat just commented back on our Bread Plate post about his desire to buy a bread plate for

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While Supplies Last — LauraPalooza 2010 Programs For Sale

Did you miss last year’s inaugural LauraPalooza conference? We have a very limited number of gorgeous programs left. Between its covers you’ll find descriptions of all the presentations and panels, as well as biographies of the presenters and panelists. There’s

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Membership Reminder

Hey ho, it’s your friendly neighborhood membership chair again and I just want to encourage you to go ahead and renew your membership in the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association (LIWLRA) if you haven’t already. Partly this is

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Go Beyond By Reading Books

When we were originally working on this site, we talked a lot about what it should be like. Some of those things were created from the beginning. Others didn’t come together right away as we worked on other plans. Originally

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Day Five of Laurapalooza 2010

Today the actual conference sessions were only in the morning followed up a spelling bee at lunch time and then everyone headed out. Some people headed home, others went to see the Betsy-Tacy houses which featured special events for the

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Day Four of Laurapalooza 2010

We hope that everyone is enjoying re-living Laurapalooza 2010 with us and is getting all excited about Laurapalooza 2012. We hope these videos are giving those of you who didn’t get to come last time a taste of what it’s

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Day Three of Laurapalooza 2010

Today we look back on the first full day of the conference. Once the conference actually started it was so busy that each day took multiple videos. I was kept very busy running back to my car to download the

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Day Two of Laurapalooza 2010

We continue this week as we look back to Laurapalooza 2010. Day Two of my Laurapalooza trip was spent in Mankato. It turned out I wasn’t needed to do much for the conference that day so instead I caught some

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