I had posted about this before, but when the LauraPalooza people made it as far as De Smet, they discovered that the entire town was abuzz about…The Antique Roadshow. It had such finished up a stop in Rapid City, South…
Tag: Random Little House Sightings
Going to see Laura
Last Saturday, my daughter and I enjoyed the ArtsPower touring musical production of Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing Up on the Prairie at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts in Clinton Township, Michigan. I must first say that I went…
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing Up on the Prairie
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…
A Blast from the Past
If you grew up in the ’60s and ’70s (like me), you might remember the book series, The Best In Children’s Books. It was published by Doubleday Book Clubs and was a 42 volume set as I learned here. Each…
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Can you find the Little House connection?
We tap maple trees here on our property in Michigan and have a very small scale maple syrup processing operation. In my never ending quest for knowledge , I was recently reading Maple Sugar (a history, lore, and how-to of…
Little House Meets the Sound of Music
If my Facebook friends are any proof, it seems that the worlds of Little House fandom and Sound of Music fandom have some overlap. I’ve loved the Sound of Music since I used to wait breathlessly for its one annual…
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New Photo Group, and A New Contributor, Too!
Wendy McClure here, your newest contributor at Beyond Little House! I’m a writer from Chicago currently finishing a book about my year revisiting the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder. When I’m not agonizing over my rough draft (I know the…
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Little House on Facebook
Heh. This just in from Facebook, where a pilot friend of mine shared his opinion on flying a two-engine plane. The first comment? “God hates a coward.” (Can you identify the quote?)
Little House in Strange Places
In the oddest Little House sighting of the day, I was reading Megan McArdle’s blog on the Atlantic Monthly’s web site regarding Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s defection from the GOP to the Democratic Party. And lo and behold … Can…