During LauraPalooza 2012, we had the second Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy Award presentation ceremony. This award is presented to someone living who has strongly contributed to improving Laura Ingalls Wilder fandom. The award was first presented to William T.…
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Dr. George Tann
Susan Thurlow Episode 36 of Trundlebed Tales all about A Doctor Fetched By A Family Dog, Dr. George Tann. It originally aired Saturday, October 27, 2012.Listen to host Sarah Uthoff and Susan Thurlow as they talk about Dr. George Tann.…
Family Tree Hunt Ends in Walnut Grove and De Smet
A local Minnesota television station noticed that genealogy was a big movement in this country. They had one of their reports follow his family tree. Much to his surprise he found a connection to Laura and that led him to…
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Happy Birthday Almanzo
I’ll confess. With Valentine’s Day coming up tomorrow, my thoughts keep traveling to my first Valentine: Almanzo James Wilder. Almanzo was my celebrity crush. In the days when all the other girls in junior high school were swooning over Kirk…
Nancy Westlake of Hoover Library Honored
Nancy Westlake Nancy Westlake is a long time volunteer at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. She researched in the Laura Ingalls Wilder/Rose Wilder Lane Papers at the Hoover Library and constructed 4 lesson units on Wilder that are available for…
Kitty Latane Resigns from Pepin Newsletter
Kitty Latane I just got the sad news that Kitty Latane, the longtime editor of the Notes from Pepin — the official newsletter of the Laura Ingalls Wilder organization in Pepin, Wisconsin — has resigned from her position. Latane (pronounced…
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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…