Tag: Little House Travel

Exciting Wilder Days in store for Mansfield

Charlotte Stewart signing autograph for Sarah Uthoff It sounds like they are pulling out all the stops for Wilder Days in Mansfield, Missouri. It’s always a great event with chances to do things that you can’t the rest of the…

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Walnut Grove Roving Report

Normally when I travel to one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder homesites I do a short radio show from on the spot as a roving report. I didn’t get that done on my LauraPalooza trip with everything else going on,…

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Walnut Grove on TV

Nicole Elzenga of Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, was featured on TV show, The Women of Sweet Swine County. Go roughly 10 minutes into the video to find Nicole. HINT: Wait until the video loading bar turns blue…

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Wisconsin Public Radio Laura Episode

The Joy Cardin Show celebrates all the Laura events going on in Wisconsin. Wendy McClure (author of The Wilder Life) is interviewed. They also talk with a representative of Old World Wisconsin about their Laura Ingalls Wilder Days. Stick with…

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Heritage Hill Event 2012

Looking for another Laura Ingalls Wilder event? Heritage Hill Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin has been having an annual Laura Ingalls Wilder event for the past few years. They like to focus on bringing Laura Ingalls Wilder people to give…

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And One More on the Way Roundup 2012

I started working on the And One More on the Way posts over the winter. I’d brainstormed some topics before that, but I was really beginning to think that this might be my last series of And One More on…

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And One More on the Way: Phelps Park

  Phelps Park Walkway   Here is  another in my series of postings of possible places you might want to add to your Wilder conference trip. Some will be Laura related, others are just kind of neat tourist spots. Enjoy!…

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And One More on the Way: Lincoln Highway

We continue our conference countdown with the Lincoln Highway. Lincoln Highway Bridge I’ve lived most of my life on one side or the other of Highway 30 which for most of its route follows what was once the Lincoln Highway,…

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And One More on the Way Series Resumes | Beyond Little House

When I stopped the “And One More on the Way” series of posts after the last LauraPalooza (with one bonus post in August of that year) I promised to start them up again when the next LauraPalooza countdown began. Well,…

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A Controversial Anniversary in Mankato

When we planned the 2012 LauraPalooza, we missed the fact that 2012 marks the 150th anniversary of an event that had direct bearing on the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Dakota Conflicts. In Little House on the Prairie, Mrs.…

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