Now that
school is just around the corner, it’s time to think of books that could be
used to study how pioneers out in the American West made everything from scratch.
Back then you couldn’t run to the supermarket because there weren’t any.
An excellent
book for how they lived is LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS by Laura Ingalls
Wilder, the tale of the Ingalls family’s life in Wisconsin.
Pioneer life
was hard. When Laura’s ma wanted to make cheese she waited until the cows were producing
abundant milk and that happened when they had plenty of grass to eat. And then….
“Somebody must
kill a calf, for cheese could not be made without rennet and rennet is the
lining of a young calf’s stomach.” P. 186 LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS.
Laura was
afraid that Pa would kill one of their calves but Uncle Henry agreed to kill
one of his instead.
If you live near
Pepin, Wisconsin you could visit Laura’s birthplace during the annual festival
held this year September 14-15, 2013.
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