Wilder on the Prairie

Episode 202

Ch. 3 of These Happy Golden Years, "One Week".

Join us as we discuss a "hoity-toity snip" and "young Mr. Wilder", and the year 1883 in context.

Episode 201

Ch. 2 of These Happy Golden Years, "The First Day of School."

Join us as we discuss the word "battened", Ruby, Tommy, and Clarence Brewster, and Clarence and Martha Harrison.

Episode 200

Ch. 1 of These Happy Golden Years, "Laura Leaves Home."

Join us this week as we discuss Lib Brewster and John Brewster and the year 1943 in context.

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.