by Chris Woodside | May 15, 2017 | Get This
Look. Some years ago, Chris felt a calling to reach a class about walking and writing. The Green Street Arts Center in Middletown, Connecticut agreed to let her try it. She called the class Writing in Motion. Writing from Motion evolved into Writing from Nature,...
by Chris Woodside | May 8, 2017 | Get This
Laura Ingalls Wilder in Mansfield, Missouri Libertarians on the Prairie, Chris’s biography of the secret coauthors of the Little House on the Prairie books, continues to get out there. She will give a keynote speech on Thursday, July 13 at a gathering of Laura...
by Chris Woodside | Apr 5, 2017 | Get This
Rose Wilder Lane in Danbury. Photo from William Holtz papers at Hoover Library Not everyone realizes that the city of Danbury, Connecticut was an important landscape in the making of the pioneer stories, the Little House books. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter...
by Chris Woodside | Mar 23, 2017 | Get This
In the archives room at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. Talk about getting things done. It’s the time of year when I give up something, something that’s hard to give up. My exercise this year is giving up putting off projects or tasks or dreams....
by Chris Woodside | Dec 21, 2016 | Get This
Firm log bridge. Icy snow on top. Near Cardigan Mountain, New Hampshire. I took riding lessons for a few years, starting at age 49. At first I had no instincts. I lacked courage, and the horse knew it. I sometimes praised a misbehaving horse, hoping he would behave...
by Chris Woodside | Nov 17, 2016 | Get This
Alf Landon campaigning in 1936. ljworld.com Laura Ingalls Wilder devotees asked themselves last week how Laura might have voted in the recent election. I don’t think I have to answer that directly. Laura was approaching her later years when women were granted...
