This week's episode covers primers, schoolhouse entries, and whips.

Chapter 3 "Winter Night"

In this week's episode, we discuss tallow, pannikins, hossocks, popcorn, and the Wilder "dialect".

Join us this week as we talk about threshing floors, fanning mils, sheep folds, haymows, James Wilder, hoop skirts, Angelina Wilder, and air castles.

Welcome to the first chapter of "Farmer Boy", School Days!

In this chapter we will talk about the Wilder family, fullcloth, and Hardscrabble Hill.

"Deer in the Wood"

This week we discuss quilts, "O Susannah", and "Auld Lang Syne".

"The Wonderful Machine"

This week's podcast discusses sumac, hubbard squash, hulled corn, threshing machines, and johnnycakes.

"Harvest"

This week we discuss Laura's cousin Charley, harvesting oats the old-fashioned way*, yellowjackets, and herbs for fevers.

Chapter 10 "Summertime"

Come with us as we discuss Laura's Uncle Henry, her neighbors the Petersons, the Huleatts, the Godey's Ladies Book, Aunt Lotty, polishing stoves, making cheese, "Old Grimes", and a grubbing hoe. Would Pa really not have been stung by bees while looking for honey?

"Going to Town"

Today our chapter covers hazel bushes, thimble flowers, grass flowers, jack knives, turkey red, galluses, the "Roses Are Red" poem, and "Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home."

Chapter 8 "Dance at Grandpa's"

Today's topics covered include much of Pa's family (his parents and some of his siblings), hasty pudding, undergarments, darning socks, jewelry, "O You Buffalo Gals", "The Irish Washerwoman", salt-rising bread.