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Join host Sarah Uthoff as interviews Michelle Martin about the hobby of Storm Chasing. Learn about how storm chasers deal with tornadoes, how you can identify one might be coming, and how to safely deal with a storm.

Welcome to our second annual on air birthday celebration for author and pioneer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Last year we talked about the history of celebrating birthdays, this year we want to talk about how Laura Ingalls Wilder effected our lives and our favorite Laura related memories and experiences.

Come talk with host Sarah Uthoff as Travel Times talks going to a historic meal. Whether at a living history site or a historic restaurant, learn how to have a truly historic meal.

Join us as we review what went on in Laura Ingalls Wilder fandom this year. We mark one year of Trundlebed Tales podcasts with this episode. Please look at it as an opportunity to check in with us. Think about calling in, commenting in the chatroom or sending me an e-mail with a comment before the broadcast.

Join host Sarah Uthoff as this Travel Times episode focuses on Amtrak with Shelley Schultz. Schultz is a long time and frequent Amtrack passenger. She will give you the tricks of the trade on how to travel on Amtrack and share the best and worst of her experiences. All aboard to take a train trip.

Join host Sarah S. Uthoff as she talks about the basic things to know about visiting the Ingalls and Wilder graves. She'll talk about Midwestern cemetery history. Basic Cemetery etiquette and were to find the main members of the Ingalls and Wilder family members are buried and how to find their graves.

Join us as we talk about what's coming up in Laura Ingalls Wilder fandom during December and January.

Join host Sarah S. Uthoff as she talks about how Laura Ingalls Wilder celebrated Thanksgiving and how slowly those pioneer traditions morphed into those we have today.

Join host Sarah S. Uthoff as she interviews Prof. Julie Williams about Carrie Ingalls Swanzey and her life as a journalist on the frontier. Williams has done more work on this period of Swanzey's life than anyone else I've found and we're glad to bring her on to Trundlebed Tales.

Join us for an update of Laura Ingalls Wilder events in November 2011.

Join host Sarah Uthoff as she interviews Sherrie Hansen author and keeper of the Blue Belle Inn Bed and Breakfast in St. Ansgar, Iowa. We'll talk about visiting bed and breakfasts, what to expect, and how to get the most out of the experience. The Blue Belle Inn features rooms decorated after favorite children's books including those by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Maude Hart Lovelace, and L.M. Montgomery.

Tonight we talk about how 19th Century people would adjust their houses as they move into a new season.

Join us as we talk about one of the less known Laura Ingalls Wilder sites, Spring Valley, Minnesota. We're going to talk about both the history of the connection and what you can see in Spring Valley today. We'll talk to Julie Mlinar and Mary Jo Dathe who literatlly wrote the book on Spring Valley.

An update on what's going on in Laura Ingalls Wilder fandom during October 2011.

Iowa historian and author Paul Juhl joins us as we talk about Abraham Lincoln's family connection to Iowa and the important role of Mt. Pleasant statesman James Harlan played in shaping this country.

Join host Sarah S. Uthoff as she interviews avid baseball fan and collector Jen Paulsen Uthoff about the hits and misses of attending a professional baseball game.

Day 2 of my trip to Laura Ingalls Wilder Days in Pepin, Wisconsin.

Join our roving reporter Sarah S. Uthoff as she gets to Pepin, Wisconisn for Laura Ingalls Wilder Days.

Join host Sarah S. Uthoff and we catch up on what's going on in Laura fandom in September.

Join host Sarah S. Uthoff and Kitty Latane as we talk about the upcoming Laura Ingalls Wilder Days in Pepin, Wisconsin.