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03:19:2006 Entry: "Ann : MiniTrip Day 1"
MiniTrip Day 1
Although we didn't do the Route 66 trip this year, we are taking a break for a few days this week to see some waterfalls up nort. We shortly drove down another highway with an equally famous song equivalent, Highway 61, at least for a short stretch from LaCrescent to Winona, Minnesota. We crossed over to Wisconsin 35, on the other side of the Mississippi river. We come to the town of Pipin, birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder. They named the highway after her. Stan says, "So they decided to name this highway after a fictional character?" Stan thought Laura Ingalls Wilder was a fictitious person! I explained to him that she was in fact real. I had a 5th grade teacher (in Colorado) who read our class a lot of her books. I think I probably would've appreciated them even more had I not been a stranger in a strange land at the time myself. Stan and I took a short trip 7 miles off the highway to photograph her birthplace, a tiny little cabin.
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Nice pix. I loved all those books and own all the original series. Looks like most of the "Big Woods" has been cut down around the house. Could you go inside?
Posted by greenthumb @ 03:20:2006:10:41 AM CST
That is really cool! I watched the tv show as a kid and read some of the books. My kids didn't like that they played with a pig bladder for a toy. They are so funny! The cabin is so tiny! I can't imagine what that would have been like!
Posted by Dawn @ 03:20:2006:12:58 PM CST
No, I'm sure one couldn't go inside; I didn't even try. I couldn't even get close to it as the small pull-off on the side of the road where it was located was filled with snow--they had not plowed it. So even if I wanted to trudge through the snow, I'm certain it would've been locked. There's no one around to monitor it. I'm amazed it was in such good shape...maybe there's a preservation society or something. Greenthumb, would you happen to remember all the books that were written in that series? All I can recollect is LHIT Big Woods, LHOT Prairie, but I know there were more. I remember reading one where they were in some windswept town in South Dakota, they were a little older, like maybe teenage, and there was a blizzard outside...it gave me the creeps (not in a bad way, but in a "I sure wouldn't want to have lived back then, there" sort of way).
Posted by Ann @ 03:20:2006:07:29 PM CST
LHIT Big Woods LH on the Praire By the Banks of Plum Creek By the Shores of Silver Lake The Long Winter (this is the one where they were snowed in all winter and almost ran out of food) Little Town on the Praire These Happy Golden Years Farmer Boy (husband Almanzo's childhood) The First Four Years another book about Laura and Almanzo moving to Missouri If you google her name you'll see no end to the interest in every aspect of her life and writing, plus new fictional books written about her mother, grandmother, etc.
Posted by greenthumb @ 03:21:2006:09:26 AM CST
Thanks! Wow, that's a lot of them. I can't remember if I read them all or not.
Posted by Ann @ 03:21:2006:07:04 PM CST
It's never too late!
Posted by greenthumb @ 03:22:2006:03:39 PM CST
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