Due to some technical difficulties this post is delayed from yesterday. Every year as October 15th (and it is the 15th although some secondary sources list the 13th which I assume was a typo that’s been mindlessly copied) I start…
Tag: Research
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…
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…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Ask the Experts, Caroline Quiner Ingalls (Ma), On the Banks of Plum Creek, Rebecca, Research
Little Great Auk
Great Auk Near the beginning of The Long Winter the Ingalls family discover a strange marine bird. It’s nearly frozen and they nurse it back to life, but nothing they have to feed it seems to go down. They said…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Ancient Murrelet, Birds, Dovekie, Great Auk, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Long Winter, Pa's Big Green Animal Book, Research, Sarah Uthoff, The Long Winter
A New Voice for the Blog
I’m a new voice appearing here on Beyond Little House. I was supposed to be posting all along, but an illness this spring and its after effects have kept me from posting before now. I hope I am back to…
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Whatever Happened to Mary Power?
This question has been a common one over the decades, with not much of an answer available until recent years. Gina Terrana, who has researched the life of Mary Power and published articles on her in the Laura Ingalls Wilder…
Rose Wilder Lane … Who Knew?
Well, we did. But apparently, now that the venerable New Yorker has run an article about Rose and Laura–containing no new information, and just a lot of commentary based on recycled sources–cyberspace is whirling with debate about Rose’s politics, the…
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Activist?
First, thanks to everyone who listened to my first official radio interview. It was an interesting experience, and I appreciated an interviewer who’d obviously read the book first! Thanks to Sandra, too, for posting the link to the recording of…
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On Horses and Oysters
After Sandra referred to Almanzo Wilder as “The Oyster” in her last post, Laura W expressed her curiosity in the comments as to what this was all about. I decided to post the answer rather than reply to Laura as…
How Research Takes Hold, Part II
I hunkered down in the library, ready to view a treasury of material I’d just found: Period magazines that catered to farm women as an audience. If you’ve never had an opportunity to look through perfectly preserved period archives, I…