I always keep an eye out for any Laura-related event going on close to home. Not that there’s a lot going on in my part of Michigan far away from any Little House homesite. However, I did hit the jackpot…
Tag: Little House in the News
The Long Winter Researcher in the News!
Check out this article in the USAToday about U. S. National Weather Service meteorologist Barb Mayes Boustead who was a presenter at LauraPalooza 2010. Barb has done extensive research on the weather during The Long Winter and, well, read the…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: LauraPalooza 2010: Legacies, Little House in the News, The Long Winter
Restoring Rocky Ridge?
Laura’s homesites are precious to me. Each of them has its own charm, its own pleasant remembrances of a time long ago when our beloved Laura lived there. But there is something about Rocky Ridge Farm* that fills me with…
Little House on Oprah
Over at oprah.com there’s a blog and it happens to be “Summer Reading Week”. Check out this story where homage was paid to Laura Ingalls Wilder. Wendy McClure’s The Wilder Life was given a mention too! The article also tells…
Book of the Day
Each day Anita Silvey features a classic (or on its way to becoming a classic) children’s book in her Children’s Book-A-Day Almanac. Today it’s Laura’s turn. Ms. Silvey has featured Little House in the Big Woods in the July 10th…
Wilder Barns Burn! — in 1851
Extra, extra, read all about it! Wilder Barns Burn But don’t panic — this is no recent devastation, but rather, a headline culled from an 1851 edition of the Franklin Gazette, courtesy of the Franklin County Historical Society in New…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Farmer Boy, Little House in the News, Malone, Minor Characters in Little House books
Can’t-Miss Laura-Related Radio Interviews
Have you missed any of Sarah Uthoff’s radio interviews on Trundlebed Tales Radio? If you have, you can still listen: From January 26, 2011: Interview with Nicole Elzenga, Collections Manager of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota…
Laura (and Bill Kurtis) in the News
Read how two adult Laura fans from Missouri bring Laura Ingalls Wilder to life and how Little House on the Prairie Museum overlord Bill Kurtis is raising cattle just like Laura did. OK, fine — it’s not really because of…
BLH Contributors In the News
The Chronicle Times in Cherokee, Iowa posted a recent story about Beyond Little House’s own Sarah Uthoff. BLH contributor and Homesteader editor Sandra Hume’s story “Little Trip on the Prairie,” which chronicles her family’s trip to Pepin, Walnut Grove and…
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Happy Laura Ingalls Wilder Day!
What? You hadn’t heard? That’s right, today is officially “Laura Ingalls Wilder Day” in the state of Wisconsin, as proclaimed by its governor, Jim Doyle. The proclamation was presented at 1 pm today by Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton at the…