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April Little House Newsletter
From Anne — Had I been born in 1999, it would have been a website. But I was born in ‘69 to a librarian mother. Naturally, a gate-folded newsletter hand-copied in a colorful variety of Bic Banana markers was my medium. My subject? The entire Little House oeuvre, comingled — raw history, books, and shows. To read or download or print out the newsletter click here. Target audience? My cousins, Tera and Amber, who lived a state away, but when visiting always accompanied me to the creek across the street to enact Little House sagas. (I played Ma.) My sources? People magazine, the paperback Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, my TV synopsis journal (the main relic for this blog), and the Little House books themselves. The recipes are ripped straight from The...
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“100 Mile Walk”
From 13-Year-Old Anne’s Journal — November 11, 1982 – GOOD “Charles goes looking for work & found it in a dynamite quarry. They did a drilling contest & Charles won. One of his friends got blown up. He went home to his family.” ____________________________________________________ From Anne — It’s all fun and games at the stone quarry until somebody gets atomized. Who can forget the image of limey Jack Peters atop boulder in the sun, all jovial and jokey – suddenly blown to proverbial smithereens. Everyone’s taking a punch in the gut this episode, though you wouldn’t know it from my synopsis: Ma gets no credit for rounding up the womenfolk and salvaging what they can of the wheat crop in inspiring, feel-good, assembly-line style. My synopsis...
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