From Ashley Preston Publishing
comes straight from the soul of the Ozarks.
Where the weather is mild and the seasons are gentle,
and little farms linger on the sides of the hills,
spotted with grazing cows and lazing goats.
Where the big meal in the middle of the day is dinner,
for the hard work in the field all afternoon,
and the last meal of the day is suppertime.
Where rush hour is getting the cows to the barn before dark.
Where Ma's and Pa's still build their own houses,
And youngins still romp rowdily through the whispering woods.
Little farms, little towns, little families working together ~
This is the Ozarks.
These are the real little house people.
Some of these Ozarkers were good personal friends of Laura & Almanzo.
We chatted with these folks, our neighbors, and you can sit in.
Laura Ingalls' Friends Remember Her,
an ebook that you can download right now,
contains memories from Laura & Almanzo's close friends,
Ozarkers who knew them around the town of Mansfield, Missouri.
They saw Laura over at Pennington's Grocery: one of the most famous authors in America, perched cozily on a wooden box, waiting for the clerk to get her groceries.
Almanzo was often at the Farmer's Exchange, exchanging stories with the farmers.
We chat with these folks, down home and close up, about their good friends Laura & Almanzo.
Laura
also joins in our chats
because we include long swatches of
her magazine writings, on whatever subject is at hand.
It's
almost as if she's there talking with us.
And I’ll tell you
what: her thoughts on family and little farms and what not are more
interesting than almost anybody you've ever talked to.
Plus the book contains discussions of --
how Laura's Ozark life made her happy books possible;
what made Laura's books so happy;
whether her daughter Rose wrote Laura's books;
and Laura's last, lonely little house.
About the author --
Most people who write about Laura are academics and lawyers and such, who choose to live in suburbs with urban sprawl and five o'clock rush hours. That is who they are.
That is not who Laura & Almanzo were.
They chose to live on a small farm in the Ozark hills, even when daughter Rose urged them to leave, even when they became famous and well-to-do. They chose to live there until the day they died.
That is who they were. Little Ozark farm people. Little House people.
This book, Laura Ingalls' Friends Remember Her, is by and about Ozarkers.
Dan L. White and his family
settled in the Ozarks some years ago,
just north of the Gasconade
River,
right where Indian Creek and Brush Creek meet,
about 12
miles up the road from Laura's Rocky Ridge Farm.
There they live
on a forty acre Ozark farmstead,
with cows, horses, chickens,
goats, blackberries, black walnuts, ticks and chiggers.
Woodsmopolitan.
In this book Dan talks with
some other down home folks in the Ozarks,
who were close friends
of Laura and Almanzo,
and gives us a view of the Little House lady
from her own kind --
the Little House kind of people.
Laura Ingalls' Friends Remember Her
an ebook you can download right now.
~ chats with Laura’s friends and neighbors;
~ Laura’s own comments on the subjects;
~ fresh discussion by the editor of the Little House lady.
Little House fans should relish these personal insights in Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder.
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