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…
Tag: Rebecca
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…
A Little House Christmas Tree
There’s something about Christmas that makes people think “Little House.” Something about those Christmases of long ago that people connect with. The simplicity… the joy… it’s what people want their Christmas to be like. And yet so often it’s not,…
Which Came First, the Song or the Cat?
Sometimes I’m asked how I decide what to research in the vast world of LIW, or why I know some amazingly trivial things but not others. It usually starts quite innocently enough. A comment, a mention in an article, a…
A Little House Christmas
This time of year, some folks get caught up in the hustle and bustle and stress of the holiday season, while others keep things much more simple. Still others feel caught in the former group while wishing they were part…
A Rose in December
…a Rose in December (is) much rarer than a rose in June, and must be paid for accordingly. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder, in The First Four Years This quotation has been going through my head for the last month, every time…
A Very Mary Celebration
This past summer, I took my niece to De Smet, South Dakota. As we soared across half the country high above the clouds in an airplane, I read By the Shores of Silver Lake to her and thought what a…
Ask the Experts: When were the Little House Books Published in Paperback?
Do you know when the first paperbacks were printed on the series of Little House books? I found a set that says 1953 newly illustrated uniform edition printed 1953 by Harper and Row. I can’t find anything to verify that…
Ask the Experts: What sickness did Ma have?
Folks, we’ve been remiss in posting the questions received by our readers lately, having a tendency to respond by email and never put them up on the site for others to read. We’ll try to rectify that, so don’t be…
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Kara and Kate: The New Laura and Nellie
Do you ever feel like your phone lines are tapped? The other day, Sandra and I were discussing the upcoming interview of Kara Lindsay and Kevin Massey for The Homesteader, and I commented that in all of the stories I’ve…
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