Episode 125 - SSL - Winter Days
Episode 125 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 16 "Winter Days" Join us this week as we discuss muskrats in South Dakota, the history of checkers, and the word "immoderately".
Sep 22, 2024•8 min•Season 5Ep. 16
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Episode 124 - SSL - The Last Man Out
Episode 124 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 15 "The Last Man Out" Join us this week as we discuss Horace G. Woodworth, the "prairie cure" for consumption, buffalo wolves, Pa's prediction of Dakota winters, "Hail, Columbia!", "Highland Mary", "Coming through the Rye", "I'm Mrs. Jinks of Madison Square", the polka and the waltz.
Sep 15, 2024•15 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Episode 123 - SSL - The Surveyor's House
Episode 123 Ch. 14 in By the Shores of Silver Lake "The Surveyor's House" Join us as we discuss gables, the history of canned food, the location of Brookings, "Mary of the Wild Moor", and "Paddle Your Own Canoe".
Sep 09, 2024•9 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Episode 122 - SSL - Breaking Camp
Episode 122 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 13 "Breaking Camp" Join us this week as we discuss "Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid (Nobody Asked You", Lena's ultimate fate, Jean's fate, Pa seeing in shades of grey, Brookings South Dakota, Robery Abey Boast, and what a sherriff did in the late 1800s.
Sep 01, 2024•11 min•Season 5Ep. 13
Episode 121 - SSL - Wings Over Silver Lake
Episode 121 Chapter 12 of By the Shores of Silver Lake "Wings Over Silver Lake" Join us this week as we discuss brant, redheads, bluebills, canvasbacks, teals, mudhens, hell-divers, swans in South Dakota, Uncle Henry, Louisa, and Charley's fate, Pa earned $300, and the Ingalls girls becoming teachers.
Aug 25, 2024•10 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Episode 120 - SSL - Pay Day
Episode 120 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 11 "Pay Day" Join us this week as we discuss Laura helping Pa with haying?, $1,000 in cash, Pa's revolver, rifle, and shotgun.
Aug 18, 2024•10 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Episode 119 - SSL - The Wonderful Afternoon
Episode 119 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 10 "The Wonderdul Afternoon" Join us this week as we discuss "A Life on the Ocean Wave", "Buy a Broom", Ma's opinion of Lena, Fresno scrapers, and Mary not supporting Laura's ventures.
Aug 12, 2024•12 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Episode 118 - SSL - Horse Thieves
Episode 118 By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 9 "Horse Thieves" Join us this week as we discuss mashed potato cakes, bushwhack, brushing your hair 100 strokes a night, Ma stroking Laura's hair, and clearing up the confusion for this chapter.
Aug 04, 2024•12 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Episode 117 - SSL - Silver Lake
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.
Jul 28, 2024•12 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Episode 116 - SSL - Where the West Begins
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?
Jul 21, 2024•11 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Episode 115 - SSL - The Black Ponies
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.
Jul 14, 2024•18 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Episode 114 - SSL - Railroad Camp
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.
Jul 07, 2024•9 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Episode 113 - SSL - End of the Rails
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.
Jun 30, 2024•9 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Episode 112 - SSL - Riding in the Cars
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.
Jun 23, 2024•9 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Episode 111 - SSL - Grown Up
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?
Jun 17, 2024•15 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Episode 110 - SSL - Unexpected Visitor
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.
Jun 10, 2024•14 min•Season 5Ep. 1
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May 05, 2024•7 min
Episode 109 - BPC - Christmas Eve
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".
Apr 08, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 41
Episode 108 - BPC - The Fourth Day
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.
Mar 31, 2024•10 min•Season 4Ep. 40
Episode 107 - BPC - The Third Day
Episode 107 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 39 "The Third Day" Join us this week as we discuss cat's cradle.
Mar 25, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 39
Episode 106 - BPC - The Day of Games
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.
Mar 18, 2024•7 min•Season 4Ep. 38
Episode 105 - BPC - The Long Blizzard
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.
Mar 10, 2024•12 min•Season 4Ep. 37
Episode 104 - BPC - Prairie Winter
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."
Mar 04, 2024•9 min•Season 4Ep. 36
Episode 103 - BPC - Keeping House
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.
Feb 26, 2024•9 min•Season 4Ep. 35
Episode 102 - BPC - Marks on the Slate
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."
Feb 19, 2024•14 min•Season 4Ep. 34
Episode 101 - BPC - Wheels of Fire
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!
Feb 12, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 33
Episode 100 - BPC - Grasshoppers Walking
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.
Feb 05, 2024•12 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Episode 99 - BPC - Surprise
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.
Jan 29, 2024•16 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Episode 98 - BPC - Going to Town
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".
Jan 22, 2024•13 min•Season 4Ep. 30
Episode 97 - BPC - The Darkest Hour Is Just before Dawn
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.
Jan 15, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 29
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