Episode 117 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 8 "Silver Lake" Join us this week as the discuss seagulls in South Dakota, the Big Slough, what graders do, bedlam, ticking mattresses, where did Mary's rocking chair come from?, Stebbins' camp, pelicans in South Dakota, quonking, purple buffalo bean pods/ground plums/buffalo plums, and Mary laughing.…

Episode 116 By the Shores of Silver Lake chapter 7 "Where the West Begins" Join us this week as we discuss the Big Sioux River, buffalo wallows, the 1800s buffalo population, "Uncle Sam's Farm", the James River, and where is Aunt Polly?

Episode 115 By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 6 "The Black Ponies" Join us this week as we discuss the difference between ponies and horses, cooking for 46 people 3 times a day, what the washing exactly was they were hiring out?, hames and traces and whippletrees, "Beware!", "A Railroad Man for Me", and the character of Lizzie marrying at 13.…

Episode 114 By the Shores of Silver Lake, ch. 5 "Railroad Camp" Join us this week as we discuss Laura preferring old-fashioned travel, "teamsters", "shanty", "peaked", and Ma and Laura cleaned their lunch site.

Episode 113 By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 4 "End of the Rails" Join us this week as we discuss the role of firemen, "There Is a Happy Land", Mary's sensitive fingers, and the cost of the meal.

Episode 112 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 3 "Riding in the Cars" Join us this week as we discuss starching clothes, lawn dresses, lillies of the valley, Tracy, MN, how fast trains went, and the roles of brakemen.

Episode 111 By the Shores of Silver Lake, ch. 2 "Grown Up". Join us this week as we discuss 1939, 1879, hardtack, losing Jack the bulldog, Laura crying, Laura growing up at 12? At 10?

Episode 110 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 1 "Unexpected Visitor" Join us this week as we discuss Burr Oak, Iowa, scarlet fever, Docia (Ingalls) Forbes, the Homestead Act of 1862, Aunt Ruby Ingalls, Uncle Peter Ingalls, Uncle Henry Quiner, and Cousin Charley.

Join us for the AMA (ask me anything)!!!

Episode 109 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 41 "Christmas Eve" Join us this week as we discuss rosin, "Charlie He's a Dandy", rollicking, and "Lily Dale".

Episode 108 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 40 "The Fourth Day." Join us this week as we discuss not doing the housework, the word "shamble", the whole family crying, bean broth, the $10 buffalo coat, "freeze the nose off a brass monkey", the word "gully", and oyster crackers.

Episode 107 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 39 "The Third Day" Join us this week as we discuss cat's cradle.

Episode 106 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 38 "The Day of Games" Join us this week as we discuss waking up snowy, cornmeal mush, the significance of the red-checked tablecloth, and little girls crying.

Episode 105 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 37 "The Long Blizzard" Join us this week as we discuss overcoats, the mysterious clock on the shelf, personifying the blizzard, Pa's jumper, the narrative shift to Ma, "Bean Porridge Hot", and the ball of fires coming down the chimney.

Episode 104 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 36 "Prairie Winter" Join us this week as we discuss "scudding", Pa wanting to go West, a bear's track quilt, "Jesus Holds My Hand" and "Sweet Sabbath School."

Episode 103 Banks of Plum Creek ch. 35 "Keeping House" Join us this week as we discuss beaver in Minnesota, Pa's "itching foot", shawl pins, Laura's use of onomatopoeia.

Episode 102 Banks of Plum Creek ch. 34 "Marks on the Slate" Join us this week as we discuss lard and beeswax as a salve, turnips, slate pencils, and the definition of "pell mell."

Episode 101 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 33 "Wheels of Fire" Join us this week as we discuss ragweed, eastern cottonwood, and Spot having a calf!

EPISODE 100!!! On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 32 "Grasshoppers Walking" Join us this week as we discuss bobsleds and when the locust know it's time to go west.

Episode 99 Chapter 31 On the Banks of Plum Creek "Surprise" Join us this week as we discuss cosy vs. cozy, muskrat, otter, and mink in Minnesota, what a muffler is, Carrie's china dog, Laura's jewel box, and what a muff is.

Episode 98 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 30 "Going to Town" Join us this week as we discuss pioneer thrift, flannel, gilt, Nellie's manners (or lack thereof), navy beans, challis, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", "The Girl I Left behind Me", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Swanee River", and "Home Sweet Home".…

Episode 97 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 29 "The Darkest Hour Is Just before Dawn" Join us this week as we discuss Laura's foot pain, Anna misbehaving, Ma scolding Laura about Charlotte, comforters, and inheriting sibiling's clothes.

Episode 96 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 28 "The Letter" Join us this week as we discuss hairpins and how much Pa was earning in eastern Minnesota.

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 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.

Episode 70 On the Banks of Plum Creek, ch. 2 "The House in the Ground" Join us this week as we discuss the Ingalls' family self-sufficiency, willows, morning glories, the dimensions of the dugout, Ma's insistence on domesticity, and sod houses.

Join us this week as we discuss the world in 1937 (the date of publication), the Ingalls' journey to Minnesota, and preemption claims.

Join us for a discussion of the Ingalls family and the "Bloody Benders" of Kansas.