One If By Land, Two If By Sea
When we met our friends Garth and Terry in 1993, they had been married for six years and their older daughter was one year old. Now their older daughter is married and their younger one is a senior in college.…
When we met our friends Garth and Terry in 1993, they had been married for six years and their older daughter was one year old. Now their older daughter is married and their younger one is a senior in college.…
As we traveled between San Angelo and Austin, Texas, last Tuesday, Ray was excited to see on our atlas that we would be passing close by the LBJ Ranch at Stonewall, Texas. Anyone paying attention to the news in the…
Near DeSmet is the site of Pa’s homestead claim where he planted one cottonwood tree for each of his girls. A memorial stone marks one portion of it. We visited the memorial and these cottonwood trees in 1996 and 2006, but…
After Laura married Almanzo, Pa built a house in town. This home was the final stop on our Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society guided tour. In the kitchen is the beautiful and efficient cabinet that Pa built for Ma. Inside are…
By chapter three of By the Shores of Silver Lake, Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and Grace are heading west on a new adventure. They travel by train from Walnut Grove, Minnesota, to join Pa by the shores of Silver Lake, where…
In our little house in Urbana, the children and I began traveling with Pa and Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and later Grace from one little house to another as we began reading the Little House series. Back then, we traveled in our…