Wilder on the Prairie

Bonus Episode 4

Join us this week as we play my 5 favorite LHOP songs:

1. Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid
2. Rock Me to Sleep Mother
3. Roll the Old Chariot
4. The Bluebonnets
5. Comin' Through the Rye

Episode 199

Ch. 25 of Little Town on the Prairie "Unexpected in December".

Join us this week as we discuss Louis Bouchie (Mr. Brewster), $40 in today's money, Marc Antony's oration on the death of Caesar, "to wheel", date of 12/24/1883, and the different levels of teaching certificates.

Episode 198

Ch. 24 of Little Town on the Prairie, "The School Exhibition".

Join us this week as we discuss "to parse", Patrick's Henry speech, "Chisel in Hand", Raleigh's lost colony, "despotism", George Washington's defeat at Fort Duquesne, and what a cutter is.

Epiosde 197

Ch. 27 of the Little Town on the Prairie, "Schooltime Begins Again"

Join us this week as we discuss cats hunting, Mr. V.S.L. Owens, the Western Reserve, revival meetings, "The Ninety and the Nine", "Sewing the Seed by the Dawn Light Fair", and Spring Valley, MN.

Episode 196

Ch. 22 of Little Town on the Prairie, "Unexpected in April". Join us this week as we discuss the definition of a blizzard, static electricity in cats, and where Ma taught.

Episode 195

Little Town on the Prairie ch. 21 "The Madcap Days".

Join us this week as we discuss "Lost between sunrise and sunset...", minstrelsy on the prairie, "Skidmore Guard", the history of blackface, and a Jew's/jaw harp.

Episode 194

Ch. 20 of Little Town on the Prairie, "The Birthday Party". Join us this week as we discuss 1882 in its historical context, the poem "Maud", a Grecian nose, Jim Woodworth, Quaker meetings, castors, double contractions, drop the handkerchief, and blind man's b(l)uff.

Episode 193

Little Town on the Prairie ch. 19 "Whirl of Gaiety"

Join us this week as we discuss Commentators on the Acts, to be on one's mettle, "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother," "The Good Old Way," a New England Supper, graham bread, 50 cents in today's money, $5 to Mary, Braille writing, German silver, "Stories of the Moorland," and wax works.

Episode 192

Ch. 18 of Little Town on the Prairie "Literaries"

Join us this week as we discuss hoarfrost, what a literary society is, Pa's opinion on organzing groups, the history of spelling bees, who is Mr. Barclay?, mimosaceous, xanthophyll, and grecophil(e).

Episode 191

Little Town on the Prairie ch. 17 "The Sociable"

Join us this week as we discuss how much a dime is worth, what a sociable is, Mrs. Addie Tinkham, princess style dresses, the history of bangs/fringes, pinked edges of fabric, Mr. Timothy Johnson, Mrs. Susan Johnson, dotted Swiss curtains, isling glass windows, Mrs. Frances Woodsworth, Mrs. Margaret Garland, Mrs. Hattie Bradley, and Mrs. Laura Brown.