![]() ![]() The older we grow, the more precious become the recollections of childhood’s days, especially our memories of mother. The excerpt below comes from the book Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist, which was published by the University of Missouri Press and is available online and at little house homes and museums. In the following article written for the Missouri Ruralist in 1921, Laura honors her mother’s loving guidance and caring spirit: “Lessons learned at mother’s knee last thru life.” In what is probably an original poem, Laura hears her mother’s voice in a song like an angel blessing her as she goes to bed. Most of all, though, Ma was the real moral center of the family. ![]() ![]() Caroline Ingalls (Ma), born Caroline Lake Quiner, with her husband, Charles Ingalls (Pa). ![]()
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