Walnut Grove, Minn.-The New Year: a time to start fresh, set some goals, and reevaluate your life and ambitions. This time on the calendar marks a time when the old is gone and the new has arrived. It seems that anything is possible in the New Year, and one man in Walnut Grove couldn’t be…
Walnut Grove, Minn.-It appears that despite best efforts, the entire Ingalls family fell asleep before midnight and missed the chance to greet the New Year as it happened. After a hearty home cooked meal and a gallon of coffee, the family spread around the table and fireplace to pursue their own activities to pass the…
Walnut Grove, Minn.- The men of Walnut Grove are excited to report that they have enough eye brow hair to make a donation to Locks of Love. Nels Oleson tells us that the idea started when Reverend Alden encouraged the townsfolk to consider ways in which they could serve others. Reverend Alden scheduled a town…
Karen Grassle, known to Little House on the Prairie viewers as the beloved Caroline “Ma” Ingalls, has made her own contribution to the ever-growing collection of cast memoirs. Her new book, Bright Lights, Prairie Dust, is a tell-all memoir that reveals information that some fans of the series may find unsettling. The Prairie Review sat…
Walnut Grove, Minn.- Yet another holiday has passed where Adam Kendall remained largely silent around the Ingalls’ dinner table. Adam Kendall and his wife Mary, first born daughter of Charles and Caroline Ingalls, recently moved to New York City, where Adam maintains his law practice. This Christmas, they made the long trek from New York…
Walnut Grove, Minn.-In a surprising paradox, local jack-of-all trades Charles Ingalls once built a house from trees on a treeless prairie and yet cannot find a decent tree for his family at Christmas. “When I saw the magical things Charles did in Kansas, well, I was very excited to see what Christmas had in store,”…
Walnut Grove, Minn.-In a recent follow-up to the town celebration that occurred upon Mary Ingalls’s return to Walnut Grove from the mathematics competition in Minneapolis, Lars Hanson clarified that he was not merely speaking figuratively when he thanked Mary Ingalls for putting Walnut Grove on the map. “It was not a figure of speech, as…
Walnut Grove, Minn.- Citing his many successes with reforming people’s problems by making them work on his farm, Charles Ingalls has decided to host The Charles Ingalls Farm Reform Camp next summer. Registration is now open and due by May 15th, although as Ingalls notes, there is not a problem if people who wish to…
Walnut Grove, Minn.-Sources in Walnut Grove report that Doc Baker’s favorite part of his job seems to be taste testing morphine. A drug commonly prescribed for pain, Doc Baker regularly orders it through the Mercantile. Nels Oleson, proprietor of Oleson’s Mercantile, started becoming suspicious at the frequency of the morphine shipments arriving to his store….
Walnut Grove, Minn.-The little house that Charles Ingalls built for his family when they arrived in Walnut Grove has long been noted for its sturdy construction but plain interior, with critics pointing to the complete lack of decoration inside the home. We recently sat down with Charles Ingalls, who revealed the dark and shocking secret…
