This year saw most of the Little House homesites become the beneficiary of a wonderful donation of Little House artifacts from Richard Fisher of Cleves, Ohio. Richard has been collecting artifacts related to the Little House books since the 1970′s,…
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Richard Fisher Donates Part of Artifact Collection to Homesites
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Independence KS Around the Web
We’re continuing around the Laura Ingalls Wilder homesite towns (with museums) in the order that Laura lived there. We move on to Independence, Kansas and the rural Montgomery County area just outside it. New fans and uninitiated writers of newspaper…
Pepin WI Around the Web
Visitors Dance at Laura Days I heard in the news last week that there was a genuine Chinook wind moving through the country – if you got an unusually nice weather the last week or so, it just might have…
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Mary Ingalls Society Unveils New Sign
Although Laura fans have long been interested in the Iowa School for the Blind and Sight Saving School (ISBSSS) where Mary attended in Vinton, Iowa, for many years the interest was one-sided. It was an active school and there were…
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…
Mary Ingalls Society Hosts First Event
Locals braved icy conditions to turn out 40 strong at the very first and very successful event hosted by the ISBSSS Mary Ingalls Society on Jan. 10, 2014. The event was a combination celebration of Mary Ingalls’s birthday (coincidentally a…
Annual Christmas Shopping Guide 2013
Whether you are looking for the perfect present for the Laura Ingalls Wilder fan in your life or just what you want to know what to put on your Christmas want list, check out these suggestions. This is the fourth…
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Season 2013 Ends
October usually is about the end of the main Laura Ingalls Wilder season for the year. If you plan a Laura trip during or after October, make sure you call ahead. They may or may not be able to accommodate…
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Little House in Simi Valley Part 2
One of the questions we often get is “how can I visit the movie ranch where the Little House on the Prairie NBC series was filmed?” We’ve gotten it enough that I pursued it to get the full scoop. As…
Malone Unveils Schoolhouse
The Almanzo Wilder Farm has finished its replica one-room school project and is unveiling it in a big event with guest speakers this Saturday. Sadly I won’t be going, but board member Connie Neumann is so we look forward to…