The Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society in De Smet, South Dakota has unveiled an online exhibit section to their website. So far there is just one display, on Rose Wilder Lane, but the use of the plural form in the…
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Memorial Society in De Smet Opens Online Exhibit
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40th Anniversary of De Smet Pageant
This year will be the 40th anniversary of the regular presentation of the De Smet Pageant. The De Smet Pageant rotates its story and this year will be doing By the Shores of Silver Lake. In addition to the normal…
Laura Season Opens
I just did a quick call around to see when the Laura museums open for the year. This is subject to change in other years, but I thought might give everyone a good idea when they are open. If you…
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Family Tree Hunt Ends in Walnut Grove and De Smet
A local Minnesota television station noticed that genealogy was a big movement in this country. They had one of their reports follow his family tree. Much to his surprise he found a connection to Laura and that led him to…
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Ingalls Homestead Hosts Harvey Dunn Plein Air Event
Wagon at Ingalls Homestead The second annual Harvey Dunn Memorial Society Plein Air Event will be held Aug. 13-15, 2010 at the Ingalls Homestead one mile southeast of De Smet. Artists of all levels of experience are encouraged to participate.…
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De Smet Pageant Cast Updates
Wilder Bros De Smet Pageant 2009 I hope many of you who attend the conference plan on going on to De Smet and also seeing the pageant there. It really is a different experience than the Walnut Grove conference and…
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Rooms for Rent in De Smet
Upstairs Lobby to Deluxe Hotel Every year Mt. Pleasant, Iowa is inundated with visitors for one week around Labor Day weekend during the Midwest Old Threshers celebration. The rest of the year they can support a couple of small hotels,…
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Site In De Smet
Have you ever noticed you come back from a Laura trip full of stuff, ideas, and photos, but it takes you awhile to absorb it all or get around to finishing all those projects that popped in your head on…
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Road Work in De Smet
This summer construction will be going on on De Smet’s Third Street, where the Ingalls family lived after they moved to town once and for all. It’s also the street that houses Prairie House Manor. Water mains in the center…
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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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