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Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association Announces LauraPalooza 2019: All Roads Lead to Laura | Beyond Little House

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association (LIWLRA) today announced registration for LauraPalooza 2019: All Roads Lead to Laura, the only academic and fan gathering celebrating the literary, historical, and cultural impact of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little

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Prairie Fires Readalong – Epilogue | Beyond Little House

Epilogue – Definition:  a conclusion, comment, postscript, supplement, addendum, postlude, denouement, swan song, peroration.   Does it have to be over?  I would rather it not.  Every time I picked up Prairie Fires I was engaged and interested, much like I

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Prairie Fires Readalong – There is Gold in the Farm | Beyond Little House

What happened after Laura’s death to shape the way we see everything ‘Little House’ related today? Who were the players and what roles did they play? Does this change what you think or how you think about the legacy of

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Prairie Fires Readalong – Sunshine and Shadow | Beyond Little House

According to Caroline Fraser, Laura Ingalls Wilder often wrote this at beginning of her fan letters about her life: “It is a story filled with sunshine and shadow” (479.)  As with everything in Fraser’s book, there is a reason for

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Laura & Rose and Nancy & Emily: Two Women Writers Talk Prairie Fires, Chapter 12 | Beyond Little House

(Guest post by Nancy McCabe and Emily Anderson, in conversation)   Nancy: One of the reasons I chose this chapter is that I’ve always found the relationship between Laura and Rose so intriguing. I grew up regarding everyone in Laura’s

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Prairie Fires Readalong – Dusty Old Dust | Beyond Little House

Pick the Dust Bowl chapter, the meteorologist said. I’ll relate to it, she said. Well, I’ll get to talk about the Dust Bowl, but it looks like I’m going to have to talk politics, too. Let’s take a deep breath

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Prairie Fires Readalong – A Ruined Country | Beyond Little House

Guest Blog Post by Kristi Martin — This chapter begins with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s journey to visit her past in the prairies. Returning with her husband to DeSmet, South Dakota was a homecoming to a place transformed by time. The

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Prairie Fires Readalong – Pioneer Girl | Beyond Little House

This week’s blog was written by Karen and Kevin Pearce Kevin: As I did with chapter 6, here are definitions for words that I had to look up due to the imparity between Fraser’s vocabulary and my own. Once again,

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Prairie Fires Readalong – The Absent Ones | Beyond Little House

When looking at the title of this chapter, the beginning pages of this chapter meshed in my brain to make sense, most of the rest of the chapter made me look at the work absent in a different light.  In

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Prairie Fires Readalong – As a Farm Woman Thinks | Beyond Little House

A couple months ago, our minister began her sermon by saying that it is common to hear “They had more time in the old days, even referring to the pioneers” My best friend gave me a pointed look to which

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