Sunday, August 18, 2013

One-Room Schoolhouse Dedication Event with LHOP Cast Members



Join Ingalls and Wilder biographer, Bill Anderson, along with Little House on the Prairie cast members, Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder) and Lucy Lee Flippin (Eliza Jane Wilder) at the One-Room Schoolhouse Dedication Event this coming Saturday, August 24th,  at the Wilder Farm in Burke, New York.

Take a self-guided tour of the new schoolhouse. There will be period activities and demonstrations, food, music, games, and book and DVD signings. Admission fee is $5 for adults, $3 for children ages 6 - 16, and free for children 5 and under.

This event runs from 10AM - 4PM, and the dedication ceremony is planned for 1PM. Visit the Wilder Homestead website for more information at http://www.almanzowilderfarm.com/

Monday, August 12, 2013

Chicago Tribune Articles States 'Little House' Series Still Resonates



Not that this will be a surprise to fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder, but the Chicago Tribune ran an article on Friday stating the classic 'Little House' books still hold the interest of youngsters today. You can read the article in its entirety at http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/books/ct-prj-0811-little-house-big-city-20130809,0,4287331.story?page=1&goback=%2Egde_4482088_member_265017347

Friday, August 9, 2013

New Release: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Walnut Grove by William Anderson



Just released - Laura Ingalls Wilder's Walnut Grove by William Anderson. 

"This book traces the history of Walnut Grove as it was known by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the establishment of the town's Museum and annual Wilder Pageant, and the steady stream of visitors who stop by to revel in reminders of the heartland's past. Walnut Grove is a town with a story to tell. Full color."


Available at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, MN.

Director David Gordon Green Working on Big Screen Wilder Project

The books of Laura Ingalls Wilder are coming to the big screen. There have been rumblings about this for a while, but news that director
David Gordon Green is working on the film adaptation is probably the most concrete evidence of an ongoing project.

You can read a news article about the project here. Not a great deal of information, but we'll see what else develops.

Friday, August 2, 2013

A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert


In 1928, Rose Wilder Lane—world traveler, journalist, much-published magazine writer—returned from an Albanian sojourn to her parents’ Ozark farm. Almanzo Wilder was 71, Laura 61, and Rose felt obligated to stay and help. To make life easier, she built them a new home, while she and Helen Boylston transformed the farmhouse into a rural writing retreat and filled it with visiting New Yorkers. Rose sold magazine stories to pay the bills for both households, and despite the subterranean tension between mother and daughter, life seemed good.

Then came the Crash. Rose’s money vanished, the magazine market dried up, and the Depression darkened the nation. That’s when Laura wrote her autobiography, “Pioneer Girl,” the story of growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, on the Kansas prairie, and by the shores of Silver Lake. The rest—the eight remarkable books that followed—is literary history.

But it isn’t the history we thought we knew. For the surprising truth is that Laura’s stories were publishable only with Rose’s expert rewriting. Based on Rose’s unpublished diaries and Laura’s letters, A Wilder Rose tells the true story of the decade-long, intensive, and often troubled collaboration that produced the Little House books—the collaboration that Rose and Laura deliberately hid from their agent, editors, reviewers, and readers.

Why did the two women conceal their writing partnership? What made them commit what amounts to one of the longest-running deceptions in American literature? And what happened in those years to change Rose from a left-leaning liberal to a passionate Libertarian?

In this impeccably researched novel and with a deep insight into the book-writing business gained from her own experience as an author and coauthor, Susan Wittig Albert follows the clues that take us straight to the heart of this fascinating literary mystery.


Coming soon!