Episode 96 - BPC - The Letter
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.
Jan 08, 2024•5 min•Season 4Ep. 28
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Episode 95 - BPC - Rain
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.
Jan 01, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 27
Episode 94 - BPC - Grasshopper Eggs
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."
Dec 25, 2023•12 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Episode 93 - BPC - The Glittering Cloud
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.
Dec 18, 2023•9 min•Season 4Ep. 25
Episode 92 - BPC - Going to Church
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.
Dec 11, 2023•11 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Episode 91 - BPC - Country Party
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."
Dec 04, 2023•5 min•Season 4Ep. 23
Episode 90 - BPC - Town Party
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.
Nov 27, 2023•7 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Episode 89 - BPC - Nellie Oleson
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.
Nov 20, 2023•8 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Episode 88 - BPC - School
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.
Nov 13, 2023•7 min•Season 4Ep. 20
Episode 87 - BPC - The Fish Trap
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.
Nov 06, 2023•5 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Episode 86 - BPC - The Old Crab and the Bloodsuckers
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.
Oct 29, 2023•6 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Episode 85 - BPC - Moving In
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.
Oct 23, 2023•6 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Episode 84 - BPC - The Wonderful House
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.
Oct 16, 2023•6 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Episode 83 - BPC - The Footbridge
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.
Oct 09, 2023•5 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Episode 82 - BPC - Spring Freshet
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".
Oct 01, 2023•5 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Episode 81 - BPC - Merry Christmas
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".
Sep 24, 2023•5 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Episode 80 - BPC - The Christmas Horses
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.
Sep 18, 2023•5 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Episode 79 - BPC - Runaway
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.
Sep 11, 2023•5 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Episode 78 - BPC - Cattle in the Hay
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.
Sep 04, 2023•8 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Episode 77 - BPC - Grasshopper Weather
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.
Aug 28, 2023•7 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Episode 76 - BPC - Straw Stack
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.
Aug 21, 2023•6 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Episode 75 - BPC - Ox on the Roof
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.
Aug 13, 2023•5 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Episode 74 - BPC - Wreath of Roses
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".
Aug 06, 2023•7 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Episode 73 - BPC - The Strange Animal
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.
Jul 30, 2023•6 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Episode 72 - BPC - Deep Water
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.
Jul 24, 2023•5 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Episode 71 - BPC - Rushes and Flags
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.
Jul 17, 2023•7 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Episode 70 - BPC - The House in the Ground
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.
Jul 10, 2023•8 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Episode 69 - BPC - The Door in the Ground
Join us this week as we discuss the world in 1937 (the date of publication), the Ingalls' journey to Minnesota, and preemption claims.
Jul 03, 2023•8 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Bonus Episode 1
Join us for a discussion of the Ingalls family and the "Bloody Benders" of Kansas.
Jun 12, 2023•11 min
Episode 68 - LHOP - Going Out
Episode 68 Little House on the Prairie, chapter 26 "Going Out" Join us this week as we discuss the definition of "chirrup", capital punishment for stealing horses, the definition of "tenderfeet", why Laura included the couple whose horses were stolen, "O Susanna", "Dixie", "Battle Cry of Freedom", "Gumtree Canoe", and the upcoming season hiatus.
Feb 27, 2023•10 min•Season 3Ep. 26
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