This year saw most of the Little House homesites become the beneficiary of a wonderful donation of Little House artifacts from Richard Fisher of Cleves, Ohio. Richard has been collecting artifacts related to the Little House books since the 1970′s,…
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Richard Fisher Donates Part of Artifact Collection to Homesites
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The First Four Years; Chapter 4: Section 13
Guest post by Suzanne Falck-Yi Last week, a hailstorm shredded my garden. I was standing at a window near my office at the local college, thinking of Laura and Manly in their first four years, watching marbles of ice pour…
The First Four Years; Chapter 4: Section 12
Guest post by Barbara Mayes Boustead The 1880s were a cruel decade in the Dakota Territory and elsewhere on the Plains. Winters were brutally cold and snowy, with vicious blizzards (extra credit if you can remember which winter was the…
The First Four Years; Chapter 4: Section 11
Guest post by Melanie Fishbane We leave the third year behind, a year where Manly suffered the stroke that would leave him partially paralyzed for the rest of his life. The stroke that probably meant that he could no longer…
The First Four Years; Chapter 3: Section 10 | Beyond Little House
Guest post by Sue Poremba Around the same time I began reading the Little House books, I began reading biographies of famous Americans – mostly presidents and first ladies. Presidential history now fascinates me as much as the life of…
The First Four Years; Chapter 3: Section 9
When I decided to take on this chapter and re-read the section, I chose to look at it as I had the very first time I read it back some 40-ish years ago. I initially read the books in 1971…
The First Four Years; Chapter 2: Section 8 | Beyond Little House
Guest post by Melissa Litke The First Four Years, this is everyone’s favorite Little House book, right? Ha! When I was in third grade and received the yellow paperback set of Little House books for Christmas, I sat right down…
The First Four Years; Chapter 2: Section 7 | Beyond Little House
Guest post by Naomi December 5th, we are told, is a bright and sunny day. Just the sort of day one might spot a Rose through the snow. But Laura doesn’t feel like playing outside in the snow. She would…
The First Four Years; Chapter 2: Section 6 | Beyond Little House
I believe I may just have ended up with the section with the least going on, but I gave it my best shot! It was a beautiful day, that twenty-fifth of August, 1886, when Manly and Laura moved to the…
The First Four Years; Chapter 1: Section 5 | Beyond Little House
Guest post by Tatiana The draw of Laura to me is the strong connection to nature and the flow of life – and as an aspiring writer, what a wonderful storyteller was Laura is. Here in part 5, from the…