Walnut Grove News

The Coates family starts each new year with a destination, not a resolution. Every New Year's Day, in what has become a time-honored ritual, the Frederick family chooses a new vacation spot.

One of the benefits of travel is people watching at the airport terminal. I try to figure out where the travelers are from; Southerners never carry a jacket and East Coast folks are so vocal.

What a wonderful reunion the audience had with Melissa Gilbert, who is starring in "Little House on the Prairie: The Musical" at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.

The Spanish word esposa means wife. It also means handcuffs. The Conner family in the television sitcom "Roseanne" lives in the fictional town of Lanford, Ill.

When Gay Horgen's family planned to move to America from Heusden, Belgium, her father heard about a ship named the Titanic that was being built and thought they'd wait for that.

AUSTIN -- George Walter Hemmingsen "Wally", 93, of Hayfield, formerly of Austin, died Monday, Sept.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation in Minnesota with Daniel Johnston, Laura Ingalls Wilder, my great-great-grandparents and a bunch of short-fiction writers There comes a time in every Minnesota man's summer when he climbs into a rusty conversion van with the love of his life and sets out across the state in search of everything and nothing in ...

Services for Virgel Osland, 67, of Ottertail, were July 23, 2009, at Zion Lutheran Church in Amor.

Heritage Hill State Historical Park's most popular event of the year just got a lot more popular.

Laura Ingalls Wilder put the city of Walnut Grove on the map with her "Little House on the Prairie" book series.

The spirit of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books still lives in the town where she grew up on the Minnesota prairie.

Share + Jul 19, 2009 10:41 pm US/Central Reporting Mike Binkley WALNUT GROVE, Minn.

A man from Kansas City, Mo., died in a one-car accident Sunday, July 12, in Redwood County, according to the Redwood County Sheriff's Office Zachary Stuart Tanner, 37, was pronounced dead at the Tracy Hospital.

Frontpage -> Features -> Lifestyles -> DENHAM, MINNESOTA - " ITS PLACE IN AREA HISTORY The thriving little town of Denham could have been called a "Boom Town" in those early years after the railroad came through.

Newsflash: I'm dependent on something that isn't natural. In this particular Sam's-sized case, said dependence is on technology.

A good place to begin, with information on festivals and much more, is www.laurasprairiehouse.com . These websites, from towns with ties to Wilder, are useful: * Independence, Kan.: www.littlehouseontheprairie.com * Burr Oak, Iowa: www.lauraingallswilder.us * Walnut Grove: www.walnutgrove.org * De Smet: www.ingallshomestead.com , discoverlaura.org ...

Posting from a sunny and steamy Minneapolis and Minnesota, where it topped out at 94 degrees today under mainly sunny skies .

For many years, my daughter, Kathleen, and I gave presentations at many schools and branches of the Door County library on Laura Ingalls Wilder.