Take a look at this article in the Apple Valley Patch. It seems this is the perfect time to be doing our read-along to These Happy Golden Years!
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These Happy Golden Years, Chapter 5: A Stiff Upper Lip
Guest post by Patty Collins Following a pleasant weekend at home, Laura’s spirits were up and she was ready to face the week anew. After all, it was only seven weeks more and she would be home again, walking to…
These Happy Golden Years, Chapter 4: Sleigh Bells
Guest post by Eddie Higgins Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. I know this from watching It’s a Wonderful Life. In Laura land however, the double strings of Prince and Lady’s sleigh bells mean the joy…
These Happy Golden Years, Chapter 3: One Week
Guest post by Wendy Corsi Staub Poor Laura, just fifteen and far away from home for the first time, newly settled at the Brewster homestead as the district’s schoolteacher for the term. Brave Laura, attempting to make the best of…
These Happy Golden Years, Chapter 2: First Day of School
Guest post by Karen First Day of School, Laura wakes up in the unpleasant Brewster house instead of home, and plunges out of her couch bed into a cold morning. Mr. Brewster sets off to start a fire in the…
These Happy Golden Years, Chapter 1: Laura Leaves Home
Guest post by Naomi It’s a bitter cold Sunday afternoon in late December. Pa’s horses are following the ‘faint sled track’ (maybe the same sled track that Mr. Brewster had made a few days earlier when he came to town…
These Happy Golden Years Read-Along: Questions Answered
There is a running list over on the top right column with chapter assignments for These Happy Golden Years – click on the link to take you to the complete list. Anyone who has volunteered to take a chapter should…
From Schoolgirl to Schoolteacher to Farmwife…
Only yesterday she was a schoolgirl; now she was a schoolteacher. This had happened so suddenly. Laura could hardly stop expecting that tomorrow she would be going to school with little sister Carrie, and sitting in her seat with Ida…
Happy Endings…
I haven’t been feeling well lately and have also been very busy. So, what’s on my mind when things slow down and I get to rest and recover? Why, it’s the Little House books, of course! I was thinking about…
That Engagement Ring, part 2
Some of you might have read a post of mine from a couple of years ago where I mentioned a very slight obsession I have with Laura’s engagement ring. For years I thought I was the only one but something…
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