Tag: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mary Ingalls Society Pageant Announcement | Beyond Little House

I first did my first post about the Mary Ingalls Society in November 2012. Since then they’ve unveiled a design for their new signs and hosted their first event, but what we’re really looking forward to is Vinton, Iowa joining…

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De Smet SD Around the Web | Beyond Little House

We’re continuing around the Laura Ingalls Wilder homesite towns (with museums) in the order that Laura lived there. Our next stop is De Smet, South Dakota. De Smet is the county seat of Kingsbury County. Situated on Highway 14 with…

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Burr Oak IA Around the Web

  Burr Oak, Iowa We’re continuing around the Laura Ingalls Wilder homesite towns (with museums) in the order that Laura lived there. Our next stop is Burr Oak, Iowa. While I cautioned you last time that Walnut Grove is smaller…

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Walnut Grove MN Around the Web

  Walnut Grove Museum Grounds   We’re continuing around the Laura Ingalls Wilder homesite towns (with museums) in the order that Laura lived there. Our next stop is Walnut Grove, Minnesota home of On the Banks of Plum Creek and…

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Millbank by Mary J. Holmes

The only novel mentioned by title in the “Little House” series is in On the Banks of Plum Creek when Laura is trying to convince Ma that she doesn’t really have to go to school because she can already read.…

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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…

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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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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…

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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…

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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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