A few years ago, we drove 730 miles west to Kansas to attend a family wedding. In anticipation of the trip, I was scoping out historical sights to which I could drag my non-history-loving husband, when I stumbled across the Bender Homestead in Labette County, Kansas. For those of you who have never heard of… Continue reading
Rose Wilder Lane (1886-1968) is remembered as the only surviving child of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder, and as an accomplished writer and journalist in her own right. But tucked quietly among the records of her long and remarkable life is a heartbreaking chapter that is rarely mentioned. On November 23, 1909, two days… Continue reading
My lifelong love of reading was sparked by one of my very first books, ‘Little House in the Big Woods’ by Laura Ingalls Wilder. When I first read it in the 1970s, I was instantly captivated by Laura’s world. What was an ordinary day like for a girl in the 1870s? What did she wear?… Continue reading
