Lake Pepin Beach A women’s club named the Farmgirls has decided to do a Laura trip/service project. It started with one chapter, but grew to include members from multiple groups. They are doing a link of the entire Laura homesite …
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Farmgirls Do the Circuit
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BLH Contributor in FamilyFun Magazine: “Little Trip on the Prairie” (June/July 2010)
Do you subscribe to FamilyFun magazine? If so, turn to page 47 in the current issue, which is June/July 2010. I wrote a “Family Getaways” story about visiting the Little House sites in Pepin, Wanut Grove, and De Smet. Lots…
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Walnut Grove’s Making a Classroom Cookbook
Nicole Elzenga, Collections Manager at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, tells Beyond Little House that the museum is working on another cookbook to add to their collection. (“Tastes of Plum Creek: Volume II” was published in 2005…
Wading in Plum Creek
Plum Creek from the water surface One of the best experiences you can have at Walnut Grove is wading in Plum Creek at the Dugout Site. Make sure you bring along a towel and maybe a change of clothes with…
Blizzard Warnings in Minnesota–Again
Right now, I feel a good deal like Florence Garland did in 1880: “Miss Garland was thinking and biting her lip. She could not decide to dismiss school because of a storm, but this storm frightened her. “‘I ought to…
Grasshoppers… at Church!?
You just never know when you’re going to stumble upon new Laura information — but I certainly didn’t expect it at church. Sunday morning, I sat in the family pew as usual, listening to the sermon. The pastor began to…
Playing Laura and Mary
In my “other” (non-Laura) life as an early interventionist, I am often discouraged at the playthings available to children. Toys of today do all the work for the kids; children don’t have to pretend anything because the toys do it…
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A Life Changing Little House Weekend
When I first heard about the Little House musical that was going to be performed at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I thought that I would really love to go. I am not much of a traveler, but I…
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Spring Freshet
The year was 1993, and my family was making its first-ever journey in the covered wagon minivan across the American Midwest to visit the Little House sites. I will never forget the thrill of excitement I experienced on that first…
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The Spirituality of Laura Ingalls Wilder
One of the questions I’ve often been asked by visitors to my website pertains to Laura’s religious beliefs. What did Laura believe about God and spirituality? While this question is impossible to answer in one respect, since Laura is no…