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Prairie Fires Readalong – Epilogue

Epilogue – Definition:  a conclusion, comment, postscript, supplement, addendum, postlude, denouement, swan song, peroration.  
Does it have to be over?  I would rather it not.  Ev

Judy Green
April 8, 2019
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Prairie Fires Readalong – There is Gold in the Farm

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 a

Kimberley Endicott
March 11, 2019
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Prairie Fires Readalong – Sunshine and Shadow

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 F

Melanie Fishbane
March 4, 2019
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Laura & Rose and Nancy & Emily: Two Women Writers Talk Prairie Fires, Chapter 12

(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.

Nancy McCabe and Emily Anderson
February 25, 2019
Appropriation, Family Stories as Literature, Laura and Rose, Prairie Fires
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Prairie Fires Readalong – Dusty Old Dust

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 dee

Barb Boustead
February 18, 2019
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Prairie Fires Readalong – A Ruined Country

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

Sarah Manley
February 11, 2019
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Prairie Fires Readalong – Pioneer Girl

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.

Karen Pearce
January 20, 2019
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Prairie Fires Readalong – The Absent Ones

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.&n

Kimberley Endicott
January 14, 2019
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Prairie Fires Readalong – As a Farm Woman Thinks

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 whi

Lauri Goforth
January 7, 2019
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Prairie Fires Readalong – A World Made

One thing that has made reading this book both exciting and humbling for me so far is the fact that Fraser’s vocabulary exceeds mine by leaps and bounds. I just finished writing my doctoral dissertati

Kevin Pearce
December 18, 2018
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Prairie Fires Readalong – God Hates a Coward

This chapter speaks to me, in a way that probably most of you can identify. It explains the growth and the shift of Laura’s perspective: from early teens to newlywed.  This chapter really highlig

Sarah Manley
December 3, 2018
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Prairie Fires Readalong – Crying Hard Times

My favorite Little House book has always been “On the Banks of Plum Creek”.  As a child, I thought living in a dugout was quite fascinating and romantic.  I never thought about bugs crawling

Laura McLemore
November 18, 2018
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