From Plum Creek With Love: A Little House on the Prairie Podcast

James and Cassandra Cooper have been living with the Ingalls inside the crowded Little House and things couldn't be better. That's until we're reminded that the children are up for adoption and a family comes asking to take them. While it might seem all is well in the Hero Township area, things are not great for the Cooper kids under their new roof. Inspired by the Albert Ingalls playbook, the two...

Charles and Albert team up with a young family, The Coopers, traveling out from Michigan to meet up with their Uncle Jed. It turns into the the worst freighting trip experience EVER when Charles has to deliver more than the load from Garvey Freight Co: the two Cooper children to their uncle. Eventually, Murphy's Law places the two children on a one way trip to a huge Orphanage leading to Albert sh...

Both, Laura and Caroline, hit major milestones in this episode: Pregnancy and menopause. And while the scene is joyous with the Wilders...The Ingalls are having to come to terms with the new stage in their lives. Feeling that a change of scenery will help Caroline, Charles takes her back to their old stomping grounds in Wisconsin after receiving a wedding invitation from an old friend from school....

Adam Kendall returns to Sleepy Eye as a lawyer right out of school only to return, with Mary in tow, back to Walnut Grove to start a career. Immediately Adam finds himself defending Edgar Mills, an out of towner who is being accused of land fraud by the citizens of Walnut Grove. The citizens are also none to pleased with Adam representing him in court. Hail Marys and surprise testimonies keep this...

Albert has become a social pariah thanks to Harriet spreading the news of Sylvia's pregnancy and the rumor he is the father. Deciding there is a place for them somewhere else, Albert decides to get a job and plan for a teenage elopement. However, Albert puts his plan into high gear when Sylvia runs away prematurely and, unfortunately, he trust the one person he shouldn't. Where else could Albert h...

Albert befriends a young teenage girl named Sylvia Webb who has a less than stellar home life with her father and also survives a horrific encounter with a masked assailant. A budding romance blossoms as Albert goes from being Sylvia's protector to romantic counterpart. Unfortunately, their relationship is discovered by Sylvia's father who forbids them from seeing one another. But emotions go into...

The Walnut Grove school is in need of some funding to help with repairs and school supplies. The only way they can acquire it is if the existing curriculum is expanded. While Laura thinks adding more studies would be overwhelming not just for her but also the students, Harriet steps in/is drafted to the task. While the subject matter she has choosen is questionable for the area, the students conti...

Joe Kagan returns to do what many before him have done already this season: Leave Walnut Grove. Heading to the meltropolis known as Sleepy Eye, Joe Kagan is reunited with Hester Sue and starts making eyes towards her. However, Hester Sue is preoccupied with a troubled new student and a wedding proposal leading her to resign from the A.G.B.A. Feeling these decisions are not genuine Mary and Joe Kag...

Royal Wilder and his wife Millie would like nothing more than a weekend getaway/second honeymoon. The only problem is who will watch their precious boys: Myron and Rupert. Enter Uncle Almanzo who volunteers to watch the kids and in the process hopefully persuade Laura into starting a family. What sounded like a fun-filled couple of days getting to know the boys soon descends into hours of maddenin...

With Nellie's due date drawing closer, Percival's parents come to visit Walnut Grove. Needless to say, a joyous occasion turns sour when Harriet's antisemitic attitude comes to the surface. With a clash of cultures in full swing, the soon to grandparents must work towards a decision that brings the families together. How did Percival come up with the name Percival Dalton? Did Nellie even get a bab...

Things get interesting when the wives of Walnut Grove are made aware they have no legal right to own property. Setting off a chain of events leading Caroline to organize a protest in the hopes of getting the Husbands to sign a petition to change legislation. Together, the real wives of the W.G. force their husbands to understand how much they do at home while also giving the men a chance to have a...

While Adam remains busy studying for the upcoming Law exam at the University of Minnesota, Mary is starting to withdraw from her husband. A series of unfortunate events in Minneapolis causes Mary to rush to Adam's side and truly start to understand his dreams. Taking matters up with the higher-ups, Mary tries to make her husband's dreams a reality. When did Minneapolis get an El train? What happen...

Following a Blasting Oil incident, Adam Kendal receives rug burn on his face and a concussion. Oh and he regains his vision in the process. With a new lease on life, Adam slowly starts to withdraw from his responsibilities and duties at the AGBA. All the while turning his attention to seeing the world, meeting new people and pursuing his interest in law. Mary is trying to be supportive but fears A...

Charles and Almanzo decide to start their own freighting business company, hauling items from Walnut Grove to Sleepy Eye and back. Each of them assumes they know the best route and proceed to make a race out of it along with a friendly wager. Which drags Carolina and Laura into the whole debacle. What should be an easy breezy day trip for the men turns into hijinks and misadventures on the road. W...

Albert Ingalls starts a penpal exchange with a girl from Minneapolis named Leslie. What starts off as a casual exchange between two teenagers turns into a bit of young love and catfishing. Soon Albert comes to the realization he wants to be honest with his correspondence and manages to score a ride with Charles to visit Leslie face to face. It's only then that Albert and Leslie decide it's time to...

The Honeymoon is over. But did it ever really begin? Laura and Almanzo continue to argue, what seems like, all the time. Things go into overdrive when Laura starts to assume her husband is having an affair with a young songwriter who has recently returned home to Walnut Grove. In the meantime Charles is trying to install a new picture window at the little house at Plum Creek. Trying to. I know it'...

Annie Crane, a former student of the Blind school, has a remarkable talent as a painter. It manages to catch the attention of a traveling art dealer who wants to sell her work. In promoting her exhibition, Annie's birth mother comes forward to ask about a reconciliation, to no avail. It's only when Caroline intervenes that the mother daughter relationship finds it has more in common than expected....

Two orphaned kids, Michael and Josh, get help from Huston Lamb, care taker of the A.G.B.A blind school, when they run away from an orphanage instead of being separated. While full of good intentions, this plan is only a temporary fix and even Charles can not come up with a better solution. It's only after Huston's health is jeopardized trying to care for the boys that he comes forward to share his...

Pete “Big Rock” Ellerbee, along with his wife and son, returns home to Walnut Grove after a successful collegiate football and business career. Seeing that Walnut Grove has a football team, Pete volunteers to the coach them into a championship team. However, Coach Ellerbee's style is more abrasive than the team is accustomed to. Even Laura finds it a bit overbearing. It's not until Albert...

The Garveys are off to a fresh start as they pack up and move to the big city of Sleepy Eye, where business is booming and crime is on the rise. After a little larceny on the Prairie, Jonathan becomes the new deputy and with the help of Charles, acting as a Private Investigator, are able to break the local crime ring. Despite being the son of the wealthiest man in town, the local Hooligans' kingpi...

While Alamazo deals with the fallout of betting it all on his farm/crops and losing, Laura then has to deal with her Manly-child issuing more ultimatums. Elsewhere, Eliza Jane feelings towards Harve Miller are growing. Until he reveals his plans of leaving Walnut Grove and returning to Sleepy Eye to propose to...someone else. Instead of seeing two relationships fall apart, Eliza Jane makes a pivot...

Laura is now on the edge of Seventeen as Almanzo buys up a plot of land. He's excited to starts his crops and build a house for him and his soon to be wife. Despite the fact the sales contract has a few shady details. With Almanzo busy at his new homestead, he has invited a friend from Sleepy Eye, Harve Miller, to Walnut Grove to help Eliza Jane at her farm. Which leads to Eliza Jane starting to h...

As we prepare for the beginning of the end aka the final chapter in the saga that is Laura Ingalls Wilder (The Adult Years) and the rest of the Walnut Grove population, we take a look back at how we got here. Get a rundown of the high points and some low points of season 4,5, and 6 as Laura navigated her teenage years. Also included are some of my favorite moments as well my top ten favorite episo...

Laura finds herself in Sleepy Eye assisting with the clean-up of the new school for the Blind, where she bumps into Almanzo after his long absence. It's not the reunion either of them was anticipating. Meanwhile in Walnut Grove, Caroline's Restaurant and Hotel is doing wonderful business while Percival is doing amazing work with Nellie. And Nellie is busy hiding her true feelings for Percival. Try...

While Laura is busy getting a marriage proposal and being told she is too young for it, Nellie is busy taking her graduation present and running it into the ground...at Mr. Oleson's expense. Laura's takes her pains and decides to help Mary and Adam find a new school for the blind, overstepping some boundaries along the way. Nellie, on the other hand, is busy getting an education on how to run her...