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Heritage tourism: a case study of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Heritage Site at Pepin, Wisconsin
No full textPlan BMany things must be taken into consideration when developing a heritage tourism site. It can be a wonderful opportunity for the community involved to benefit economically and historically. Heritage tourism can keep alive the heritage and traditions of the communities past. When it is discovered that a heritage site exists, the first step is to consult with the community. A site will not succeed without the acceptance and assistance from the community involved. Once the interest is known, the development process can proceed. After determining that there is a heritage tourism site possibility in their area, a commumity must do research to determine the feasibility of the site, what will make it a success, and how to obtain that success. This study will examine a community with a heritage tourism site that has been successful in developing and maintaining it's site. By conducting this study, other communities seeking information for developing their site will have an example and tool to work with. The site chosen for this study is the Laura Ingalls Wilder site in Pepin, Wisconsin. The town is rich with it's heritage associated with Laura Ingalls Wilder. The development and success for this town will be documented through this study. Laura Ingails Wilder is a perfect choice for examining heritage tourism. The author of many American Pioneer books, she has become famous all over the world. In turn all places that she or her family members lived are or are becoming heritage tourism sites. There are older ones that have been in progress for some years, such as the one in Pepin, and there are ones that are being discovered through the popularity of new books written about Laura's family. These communities would benefi greatly from the information this study will produce. Without the bene-fit of this knowledge communities who are unaccustomed to tourism or the way the other Laura Ingalls Wilder sites operate, may make terrible errors in development, tarnishing the site. This may also reflect badly on the other Laura Ingalls Wilder sites. It is important for new Wilder sites to examine all information and know exactly what they are doing when developing the site. If all the Laura Ingalls Wilder sites can benefit from each other's knowledge and experience it will greatly increase the market for all sites. The more detailed and expansive the sites are about their knowledge and sites to see, the more people are going to want to travel to as many sites as possible, learning all they can about the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family. These sites not only attract Laura Ingalls Wilder fans but all people that are interested in the American Pioneer period of the United States history. This study will provide the knowledge for communities who are developing heritage tourism sites, especially those focusing on Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is a very important study for tourism and especially heritage tourism. When a heritage site is discovered communities run into the barrier of not having the experience and knowledge to develop the site properly. This study will analyze tourism in Pepin, Wisconsin to determine it's successfulness due to the fact that it is a Laura Ingalls Wilder heritage tourism site, and Wfit was developed in a way to provide tourists with a view of Laura Ingalls Wilder's past and the past of many Pioneer Americans. By studying this subject it will allow for many people to benefit. Tourist who are seeking the pleasure of the knowledge of the past, and communities who want to preserve their past and profit from tourism
Letter from Laura Ingalls Wilder, dated December 14, 1942
No full textHandwritten letter in which the author confirms her age and expresses gratification in the children's appreciation of her books. Signed Laura Ingalls Wilder
Letter from Laura Ingalls Wilder, dated December 14, 1942
No full textHandwritten letter in which the author confirms her age and expresses gratification in the children's appreciation of her books. Signed Laura Ingalls Wilder
The selected letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
No full textThe Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a vibrant, deeply personal portrait of this revered American author, illuminating her thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and dealings with family, friends, and fans as never before. This is a fresh look at the author in her own words. Gathered from museums, archives, and personal collections, the letters span over sixty years, from 1894 to 1956, and shed new light on Wilder’s day-to-day living. Here we see her as a businesswoman and an author—through reflections on her beloved Little House books; her legendary editor, Ursula Nordstrom; and her readers—and as a wife and a friend. In her letters, Wilder shares political opinions and reminiscences of frontier childhood. Also included are letters to her daughter, writer Rose Wilder Lane, who filled a silent role as editor and collaborator while the famous Little House books were being written. Wilder biographer William Anderson collected and researched references throughout these letters, and the result is an invaluable historical collection, tracing Wilder’s life through the final days of covered wagon travel and her years of fame as the writer of the Little House books. Here we see her as a farm woman, a country journalist, and a Depression-era author. This collection is a sequel to her beloved stories and a snapshot of twentieth-century living
MIT Historian Craig Steven Wilder to Lecture at UM
No full textMIT historian Craig Steven Wilder, author of Ebony & Ivory: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, will deliver a public lecture on Feb. 11, 2014 at 7 p.m. in Nutt Auditorium.
The lecture, Slavery and the University, is presented by the University of Mississippi Departments of African American Studies, history, and sociology and anthropology, and the Office of the Chancellor.
For information, contact Chuck Ross, director of African American Studies and professor of history, at 662.915.5798 or [email protected]://egrove.olemiss.edu/umsrg_news/1008/thumbnail.jp
Stories Can Offer a Reader a Very Good Time : A Chat With April Gray Wilder, Editor of Flock
No full textFlock was founded by author, musician, artist, and UNF faculty member Mark Ari, and UNF students in 2002. The journal seeks to publish all varieties of fiction (traditional, experimental, and everything in between) and is based on the premise of literature as an addictive experience. Since its inception, the journal has been a part of a growing literary community in North East Florida and has attracted authors from across the United States and world. Flock is used in UNF literature courses, has showcased author readings, and has hosted its own workshops. Current editor April Gray Wilder was kind enough to answer The Review Review’s questions
Author headings for the official publications of the State of Kansas
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (page x).This list of author headings covers all official agencies as found in the laws of the territory and the laws of the state of Kansas from May 30, 1854 through July 1955; also agencies created by Executive Order, and administrative divisions, or boards, created within a department of the state. Agencies included are:
1. All departments, bureaus, divisions, commissions, courts, legislative bodies and special committees created by the laws or joint resolutions of the territory or state of Kansas, or by Executive Order*
2. Subdivisions of the respective departments, bureaus, commissions and committees even though not expressly created by acts of the legislature, but which are included in the official reports of the agencies*
3. Legislative bodies and their committees, if created by law, or if their reports were published.
4. Societies supported wholly, or in part, by the state.
5. All state and territorial institutions (including educational, charitable, correctional and penal)
The Literary Apprenticeship of Laura Ingalls Wilder
No full textFifty years after the publication of Laura Ingalls Wilder\u27s first book, Little House in the Big Woods, that volume and ten succeeding volumes of the author\u27s writings, are American classics. The Little House books have been read, re-read, translated, adapted, admired and worshipped by multitudes world-wide. Of Wilder\u27s books, which portray frontier existence during the last great American Expansionist era, it is safe to say that they have given a notion of what pioneer life was like to far more Americans than ever heard of Frederick Jackson Turner. Laura Ingalls Wilder\u27s fame and the success of her books have been spiraling phenomenons in American publishing history. In 1953, 500,000 of the Little House books had· been printed; by 1959, the quantity had nearly doubled, and in 1976, it was estimated that 20,000,000 of Wilder\u27s books had been published. In lists of American best-sellers of the twentieth century, the Little House books are included. The mystique of Laura Ingalls Wilder has spread into far-flung areas. Her appeal is global. First translated by the United States State Department as a post-World War II re-education program for Germany and Japan, the Little House books are now printed in approximately forty some of Wilder\u27s supporters. The well-meaning preservation of Wilder\u27s public image denied her miraculous and admirable evolution as a writer, and created certain falsifications that surely would have amused, if not amazed, Laura Ingalls Wilder herself. Curiously, among those who most stridently denied Wilder\u27s multi-faceted metamorphosis from capable country woman to talented writer, was the individual who had most shaped and aided the emergence of Laura Ingalls Wilder as an author. All her lifetime, Laura Ingalls Wilder\u27s daughter Rose Wilder Lane, contributed to a composite image of her mother that, while wholly admirable, was not fully accurate. Historical evidence has periodically suggested discrepancies between the Little House books and recorded facts. None is major and none diminishes the essence of truth and reality which shines from the pages of Wilder\u27s books
I remember Laura Laura Ingalls Wilder
No full textBiography of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with articles, interviews and recollections of friends and neighbors, focusing on her later life
Genome Sequences of Four Subcluster L2 Mycobacterium Phages, Finemlucis, Miley16, Wilder, and Zakai
No full textFour subcluster L2 mycobacteriophages, Finemlucis, Miley16, Wilder, and Zakai, that infect Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 were isolated. The four phages are closely related to each other and code for 12 to 14 tRNAs and 130 to 132 putative protein-coding genes, including tyrosine integrases, cro, immunity repressors, and excise genes involved in the establishment of lysogeny. KEYWORDS: L2 mycobacteriophages, Finemlucis, Miley16, Wilder, Zakai, Biology, Life Science
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