tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post5125633519793975738..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: Rose Wilder Lane, Libertarian BabeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-9807554179950505942013-09-30T10:16:51.992-04:002013-09-30T10:16:51.992-04:00This is the first time I've heard of Ms. Land ...This is the first time I've heard of Ms. Land and her book. I need to get a copy. Hopefully it will be rediscovered. The homeschooling angle was a good point. If she had stayed in public schools, it's unlikely she would have accomplished so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-85852881486351646032013-09-29T22:59:55.690-04:002013-09-29T22:59:55.690-04:00Imagine my happiness when I found Rose Wilder Lane...Imagine my happiness when I found Rose Wilder Lane's writings.<br /><br />That the daughter of one of my childhood heroines became a heroine of my adult years was a source of joy.<br /><br />I find some aspects of Lane's life disagreeable: divorce, childlessness, a devotion to independence that shunned the values and religion of her parents...but she does strike at the heart of slavish devotion to communism.<br /><br />You should read the Little House books, and the anthology Little House in the Ozarks (a collection of Laura's, and some of Almanzo's, writings regarding farm and civic life on their Mansfield homestead). The family was suffused with a bootstrapping mentality that refused to give in to despair or welfare despite disease, disability, death, poverty, and the march of progressive ideology bent on destroying all they held dear. <br /><br />Laura wrote novels based on her true experiences, so they are not to be held as legitimate biographies (many of the characters, places, and experiences are aggregates of real occurrences, and there are some critical real-life details left out of the books, i.e. the birth and death of her brother Frederick, and the birth and death of her own unnamed son).<br /><br />I think you might enjoy her tales of pioneer life, and of a time and spirit that seems to be lost, or sleeping, in our own time.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02887726976835609577noreply@blogger.com