Wilder on the Prairie

Episode 95   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 27 "Rain".   Join us this week as we talk about dogs aging, dustdevils, the Nelsons' house, Exodus 10, heat rash, and what underwaists are.

Episode 94   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 26 "Grasshopper Eggs"   Join us this week as we discuss grasshopper eggs, making cottage cheese, "All the Blue Bonnets Are over the Border," "The Campbells Are Coming Hurrah!" and "Life Let Us Cherish."

Episode 93   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 25 "The Glittering Cloud"   Join us this week as we discuss lizards panting, $1,080 per acre of wheat, pullets, "no great loss without some gain", and the Grasshopper Plague of 1874.

Episode 92   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 24 "Going to Church"   Join us this week as we discuss the Congregational Church, Edward Alden, shirrings, Ma's gold pin, "Wait from the Wagon", "There Is a Happy Land", John 11:35, "Jerusalem the Golden", and "Pa's bell" is still in Walnut Grove.

Episode 91   On the Banks of Plum Creek, ch. 23 "Country Party"   Join us this week as we talk about vanity cakes, Ma's patience, the Ingalls' chickens, and the definition of "knoll."

Episode 90   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 22 "Town Party"   Join us this week as we discuss velocipedes, china dolls, talking dolls, and Mother Goose.

Episode 89   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 21 "Nellie Oleson."   Join us this week as we discuss the value of money to the Ingalls, the interactions with the Oleson family, ring-around-the-rosie, "Uncle John Is Sick Abed", and Nellie Owens. 

Episode 88   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 20 "School"   Join us this week as we discuss the definition of "sprigged", which readers the girls would have used, blue herons, snipes, who Laura and Mary's friends were, and Miss Eva Beadle.

Episode 87   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 19 "The Fish Trap"   Join us this week as we discuss crape, to "cipher", buffalo fish, pickerels, and bullheads.

Episode 86   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 18 "The Old Crab and the Bloodsuckers." Join us this week as we discuss boughten brooms, minnows, crabs/crawfish, and LEECHES.

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.

Episode 75   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 7 "Ox on the Roof"   Join us this week as we discuss what makes bulls angry.

Episode 74   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 6, "Wreath of Roses"   Join us this week as we discuss butterfly wings, Eleck Nelson, cud, milking cows, the definition of "milch", and the name "Reet".

Episode 73   "On the Banks of Plum Creek" ch 5 - "The Strange Animal"   Join us this week as we discuss black-eyed Susans, goldenrod, badgers, and muslin.

Episode 72 "On the Banks of Plums Creek" chapter 4 "Deep Water"   Join us this week as we discuss thrift with clothing, plum thickets, and Laura's love of danger.

Episode 71 Chapter 3 On the Banks of Plum Creek "Flags and Rushes"   Join us this week as we discuss rushes, blue flags (irises), bumble bees, dragonflys, and water striders.