We’re kicking off the first Laura event of the summer. If you can make it, please come join the fun in Independence, Kansas at the Little House on the Prairie Museum site.
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Prairie Days 2011
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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…
Nicole Elzenga of Walnut Grove Museum Interviewed
Trundlebed Tales Radio had its first interview with Nicole Elzenga of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. It aired live January 26, 2011, but you can still listen to it here or find it on iTunes. There…
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Michigan Connection (Part Two)
Note: Read Part One of this article here. Just last Saturday, my husband and I (who surprised me by offering to go once again ), took another trip to the University of Michigan-Dearborn to see the Laura Ingalls Wilder exhibit…
Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Michigan Connection
Isn’t it like a dream come true when you find out that there is a Laura event happening close to where you live? When William Anderson (well-known Wilder biographer and researcher) announced at LauraPalooza that a Laura Ingalls Wilder exhibit…
LauraPalooza Homesteader, “Nellie’s” show, and more …
I have a hard time not thinking of Rocky Ridge Day (which hasn’t been held since 2002) every time October rolls around. Sigh. I’m saying hello to you folks from the top of a hole, which I’ve burrowed myself into…
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Fun in Mankato and Walnut Grove
Oh, I’m so excited. We’ve got some details to add about the Walnut Grove field trip and activities in Mankato this summer during LauraPalooza. First, two Walnut Grove natives, Denise Tietz and Catherine DeBates, are public relations students in my…
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Mary’s Birthday
Today is the 145th anniversary of the birth of Mary Amelia Ingalls. It’s also the 174th birthday of her father, Charles Ingalls (Pa), but as nobody threw him a party, let’s just talk about Mary. Despite frigid temperatures and snowy…
A Very Mary Celebration
This past summer, I took my niece to De Smet, South Dakota. As we soared across half the country high above the clouds in an airplane, I read By the Shores of Silver Lake to her and thought what a…
Fall Fun at the Wilder Homesites
Just because summer’s over, don’t think the fun at the Laura Ingalls Wilder homesites has to end!! This weekend — September 12-13 — celebrate Laura Ingalls Wilder Days in Pepin, Wisconsin — the Little House in the Big Woods. And…
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