Wilder Weather: What Laura Ingalls Wilder Teaches Us About the Weather, Climate, and Protecting What We Cherish

Barb Mayes Boustead, Ph.D., is a meteorologist, climatologist, and instructor, and will be giving a public talk suitable for all audiences on her work. She writes and researches about weather and climate, and recently published Wilder Weather. Born in Michigan and currently living in Nebraska, her loves of weather and of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books both grew from early age.

The lasting appeal of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books springs from her vivid, detailed descriptions of the skies and lands around her and her family. Though she wrote the Little House books as fiction based on her life, Wilder’s accounts of the weather around her ring true. From blizzards to prairie fires, tornadoes to grasshoppers, and floods to droughts, weather-related calamities plagued the Ingalls and Wilder families.

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Location: NORRIS – Norris Hall – Classroom 102