Episode 85

On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 17 "Moving In"

Join us this week as we discuss Pa and Laura's secret, Pa's impulsiveness, curtains = a feeling of home, the Ingalls' library, and Ma's china shepherdess.

Episode 84

On the Banks of Plum Creek, ch. 16 "The Wonderful House." Join us this week as we discuss Sam and David's names, harrowing, sorrel, the definition of "boughten", lean-tos, tar paper, and P A T 1770.

Episode 83

On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 15 "The Footbridge"

Join us this week as we compare the text to the original "Pioneer Girl" book text.

Episode 82

Chapter 14 of On the Banks of Plum Creek "Spring Freshet"

Join us this week as we discuss the definition of "freshet", the origin of "jiminey crickets", and "it's raining fishhooks and hammer handles".

Episode 81

On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 13 "Merry Christmas"

Please join us this week as we discuss "Millbank", button strings, and the word "flutterbudget".

Episode 80

On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 12 "The Christmas Horses"

Join us this week as we discuss three (or five) grains of parched corn at Thanksgiving, the origin of Santa coming down the chimney, and Carrie's first words in the book.

Episode 79

On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 11 "Runaway"

Join us this week and we discuss chapter continuity, chapter illustrations, Ma's face turning grey, and horehound candy.

Episode 78

On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 10 "Cattle in the Hay"

Join us this week as we discuss Laura and Mary's ages in the prairieverse, using paper curlers in hair, challis fabric, ox goads, corn dodgers, and Johnnie Johnson in the TV show.

Episode 77

On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 9 "Grasshopper Weather"

Join us this week as we discuss wanting candy for a good wheat crop, prunes vs. plums, what a "bole" is, different types of plums, what frost plums are, and what "grasshopper weather" really is.

Episode 76

On the Banks of Plum Creek, ch. 8 - "Straw Stack"

Join us this week as we discuss scythes, threshing machines, chaff, straw vs. hay, what wheat kernels taste like, and why Pa's back quivered.