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was not referred to as the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Rural Missouri will publish signed letters relating until after the “Little to the contents of the publication. Letters may Here are the lyrics to House on the Prairie” probe edited for length and clarity. Be sure to write “The Prisoner’s Song.” ductions based on Laura’s legibly and tell us where you live. Send letters to: It is the song that Mat“Little House” books. thew Ernst wrote about Laura Ingalls married Rural Missouri Mail Bag in the July issue of your Almanzo Wilder. They had P.O. Box 1645, Jefferson City, MO 65102 magazine (“I’ll fly away,” a daughter and named her July 2010), the one that Rose. Rose was 7 years old You may also FAX us at 573-636-9499 or send inspired Albert Brumley when the family moved to e-mail to mailbag@ruralmissouri.coop. to write “I’ll Fly Away.” Mansfield. Almanzo was My mother sang this an invalid and Laura was song to me over 70 years in her twenties. ago when I was a small child. Mailbox malady Rose married a man whose last Mary Ann Brown name was Lane. She became a notYukon We used to be part of the co-op, ed writer and journalist before her and the magazine came before the mother did. It it thought that it Editor’s note: In order not to month it is published for. We got was the influence of Rose that got infringe on the copyright to “The to pack up the motorcycle and ride Laura started writing on her “Little Prisoner’s Song,” something Brumley to places all over Missouri that we House” books. Rose’s autobiograhimself championed and would have read about. phy can be read on the Internet appreciated, we’ll only share a few Now that we have to subscribe, and is very interesting. lyrics here: “Now if I had wings like it doesn’t come until the middle of I look forward to receiving Rural an angel, Over these prison walls I the month it is published for, cutMissouri every month and read it would fly. And I’d fly to the arms of ting down the time we ride down from beginning to end. It is a great my poor darlin’, And there I’d be willand the amount we contribute to magazine. Keep up the good work. ing to die.” businesses in the magazine also. Matilda Ross Did I mention we ride with a large Salisbury group of bikers and trikers? Lots of Don’t stop the presses money being lost to your patrons. Why is it that the magazine Thanks for reminding folks that Best on the planet? comes so late, and how can we there is a place for weekly newsparemedy this? pers in the scheme of things. Thad I really like your article on The Dan Hunter Requet’s Guest Column tells the Hickory Log (Out of the Way Eats, Independence story well (“Can’t find Shelbina news August 2010). on the Internet,” July 2010). I lived in Dexter for about 10 Editor’s note: It takes five days to When Jack Stapleton’s Stanberry years and almost every Friday, I ate mail all 500,000-plus copies of Rural Headlight ceased publication, it felt their ribs. In my opinion, they are Missouri. However, we set our deadlike the loss of a beloved relative. the best ribs on the planet. Like lines so copies should arrive around While still a youngster (late 1940s), your article said, what sets them the first of the month. If yours is late, I was the “printer’s devil” there. apart is the sauce. It’s a sauce I contact your local post office. That experience directed me into wish I had the recipe for. Yum . . . a life of journalism, so I especially Dionne Enloe felt the loss. There is a place for Fremont Come on, ride the train that kind of journalism, even in this day of little phones that take I really enjoyed your article about Shooting from the hip pictures as well as transmitting Amtrak in the June (2010) issue neighborhood news. (“Ride the rails”). My husband and The July issue of Rural Missouri Glenn Hensley Jr. I enjoy train travel and noticed a has a story on page 18 with some Kirkwood Missouri trip you forgot to menstriking photos (“A true family tion. We took the train from Washsport”). Thank you for a rare event, ington to Jefferson City. We visited a positive story involving guns. Finding our backbone the museums, the Capitol and ate This is not a common event, and I at restaurants all within walking certainly appreciate your efforts. So I’ve been reading this outstanding distance, then we enjoyed the ride many publications take anti-gun, publication from the first issue and home in the evening. It was very anti-hunting stands. It is refreshing have enjoyed every word. It gives affordable and educational. to see one like this. us an appreciation for out-of-theAlice Ortner Ray E. Hoffman way places, which turn out to be Wentzville Blanchard, Iowa not out of the way at all, but the backbone of Missouri. Had it not been for these places, we wouldn’t More Mansfield history Cup Tree correction have the Missouri we have today. I read the article on the artI read the article, “Laura’s MemoThe Internet article on the Cup work of Mark Jensen (“Look for the ries,” by Erin Stubblefield in the Tree (“Destinations,” March 2007) dinosaur,” August 2010). His art is August 2010 Rural Missouri. I grew gives the wrong address of its locaoriginal and well done. I would up in Norwood, which is 8 miles tion. It’s located on State Road 135like to see more of Mark’s work as east of Mansfield. I grew up know3, not road 135-5 as listed twice in it becomes available. ing what is now referred to as the the article. Cordell Smith Laura Ingalls Wilder Home as the Rob Wilson Van Buren Rose Wilder Lane Home. In fact, it Overland Park, Kan.

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Custom Sales Book

Custom Sales Book
Contents
Comments
Columns
Ghosts of the Grasslands
Out of the Way Eats
Mail Bag
Best of Rural Missouri
Hearth and Home
News Briefs
What’s Old is New Again
Marketplace
Around Missouri
Missouri’s Horse
Neighbors
Look for the Dinosaur
Just4Kids

Custom Sales Book