Harvey Dunn Street Sign on SDSU Campus At long last, we are very pleased to share that the 2015 LauraPalooza conference will be July 16-17, at the South Dakota State University campus in Brookings, SD, with July 18 spent at…
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Location Announced for LauraPalooza 2015
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Events 2014
One of my annual events on the podcast is to do an episode looking ahead to Laura events in the coming year. Kudos to the large number of organizations who got their exact dates out there early so I could…
De Smet Fire Department Christmas
There are lots of great stories in De Smet. This year I discovered a not directly Laura connected, but lovely story about how the volunteer fire department in De Smet helps Santa out each Christmas. Then again, while they know…
Days 5 and 6 LauraPalooza July 15-16 2012
Welcome to Days 5 and 6 of my LauraPalooza Trip, Sunday, July 15, and Monday, July 16 2012. Official LauraPalooza ended on Saturday, but my trip continued until Monday. Many Laura fans add an additional Laura site or two to…
Laura Season 2013 Gets Underway
Catch up what’s going on this month in Laura Ingalls Wilder fandom with Trundlebed Tales May Update Podcast. I had originally posted the information below on my personal blog, but at Connie Neumann’s request I am reposting it here with…
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Antique Roadshow Came to South Dakota
I had posted about this before, but when the LauraPalooza people made it as far as De Smet, they discovered that the entire town was abuzz about…The Antique Roadshow. It had such finished up a stop in Rapid City, South…
Tell Them You Like De Smet
De Smet, South Dakota De Smet, South Dakota has been rather active online this year. A brand new website for the town of De Smet is drawing national attention and it’s just recently gone live. And when you are getting…
Fandom Roundup 2012
This is the third year the Trundlebed Tales podcast has done a retrospective looking back over the events in Laura Ingalls Wilder fandom. 2012 was a busy year with a lot of events, from the publication of the new edition…
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The October Blizzard: 131st Anniversary
Due to some technical difficulties this post is delayed from yesterday. Every year as October 15th (and it is the 15th although some secondary sources list the 13th which I assume was a typo that’s been mindlessly copied) I start…
LauraPalooza 2012 Days 5 and 6 Videos
Welcome to Days 5 and 6 of LauraPalooza, Sunday, July 15, and Monday, July 16 2012. OK so it should have been two videos, but I didn’t take enough footage of De Smet. In fact, I originally meant to leave…