Fall Tidings

Well, the weather has been exceptional but you know the cold is right around the corner.  Yesterday Westbrook had a Red Cross Blood Drive!  Even though only 15 people showed up 14 of them were viable and that makes me happy!  I even was able to donate (yes)!  Thank yous go out to all my volunteers & donors!
Time to get back into the work routine....4 days off from the Museum is too long (I miss it).
Here are a few LIW tidbits I posted in an email and partial on my FB!

November 1, 1875   Charles Frederick Ingalls is born in Walnut  Grove, Minnesota.
November 4, 1947   Garth Williams stopped by the Gordon farm  house and shared
Laura's legacy.
November 10, 1941 Grace Pearl Ingalls Dow passed away.
November 11, 1889 South Dakota became a state!
November 12, 1812 Lansford Whiting Ingalls is born, father of  Charles P. Ingalls
and grandfather of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
November 23, 1881 Mary Ingalls enrolls in the Iowa State Blind School.
November 24, 1877 Reverend Leonard Moses is ordained as minister of the
Congregational Church in Walnut Grove.

More research & touching up exhibits and creating the Quilt exhibit, moving the Veterans' exhibit and other Museum related things to continue for the fall & winter months.  The Museum opens again 4/1/2012 which usually is RIGHT AROUND the corner.