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Episode 203 Ch. 4 of These Happy Golden Years, "Sleigh Bells". Join us this week as we discuss stirring the straw tick, what a wash-boiler is, Mrs. Elizabeth Power, what a "beau" is, a buckram frame, "Sweet Sabbath School", and "The Doxology".

Episode 202 Ch. 3 of These Happy Golden Years, "One Week". Join us as we discuss a "hoity-toity snip" and "young Mr. Wilder", and the year 1883 in context.

Episode 201 Ch. 2 of These Happy Golden Years, "The First Day of School."   Join us as we discuss the word "battened", Ruby, Tommy, and Clarence Brewster, and Clarence and Martha Harrison.

Episode 200 Ch. 1 of These Happy Golden Years, "Laura Leaves Home." Join us this week as we discuss Lib Brewster and John Brewster and the year 1943 in context.

Bonus Episode 4   Join us this week as we play my 5 favorite LHOP songs: Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid Rock Me to Sleep Mother Roll the Old Chariot The Bluebonnets Comin' Through the Rye

Episode 199 Ch. 25 of Little Town on the Prairie "Unexpected in December". Join us this week as we discuss Louis Bouchie (Mr. Brewster), $40 in today's money, Marc Antony's oration on the death of Caesar, "to wheel", date of 12/24/1883, and the different levels of teaching certificates.

Episode 198 Ch. 24 of Little Town on the Prairie, "The School Exhibition".  Join us this week as we discuss "to parse", Patrick's Henry speech, "Chisel in Hand", Raleigh's lost colony, "despotism", George Washington's defeat at Fort Duquesne, and what a cutter is.

Epiosde 197 Ch. 27 of the Little Town on the Prairie, "Schooltime Begins Again" Join us this week as we discuss cats hunting, Mr. V.S.L. Owens, the Western Reserve, revival meetings, "The Ninety and the Nine", "Sewing the Seed by the Dawn Light Fair", and Spring Valley, MN.

Episode 196 Ch. 22 of Little Town on the Prairie, "Unexpected in April". Join us this week as we discuss the definition of a blizzard, static electricity in cats, and where Ma taught.

Episode 195 Little Town on the Prairie ch. 21 "The Madcap Days". Join us this week as we discuss "Lost between sunrise and sunset...", minstrelsy on the prairie, "Skidmore Guard", the history of blackface, and a Jew's/jaw harp.

Episode 194 Ch. 20 of Little Town on the Prairie, "The Birthday Party". Join us this week as we discuss 1882 in its historical context, the poem "Maud", a Grecian nose, Jim Woodworth, Quaker meetings, castors, double contractions, drop the handkerchief, and blind man's b(l)uff.

Episode 193 Little Town on the Prairie ch. 19 "Whirl of Gaiety" Join us this week as we discuss Commentators on the Acts, to be on one's mettle, "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother," "The Good Old Way," a New England Supper, graham bread, 50 cents in today's money, $5 to Mary, Braille writing, German silver, "Stories of the Moorland," and wax works.

Episode 192 Ch. 18 of Little Town on the Prairie "Literaries" Join us this week as we discuss hoarfrost, what a literary society is, Pa's opinion on organzing groups, the history of spelling bees, who is Mr. Barclay?, mimosaceous, xanthophyll, and grecophil(e).

Episode 191 Little Town on the Prairie ch. 17 "The Sociable" Join us this week as we discuss how much a dime is worth, what a sociable is, Mrs. Addie Tinkham, princess style dresses, the history of bangs/fringes, pinked edges of fabric, Mr. Timothy Johnson, Mrs. Susan Johnson, dotted Swiss curtains, isling glass windows, Mrs. Frances Woodsworth, Mrs. Margaret Garland, Mrs. Hattie Bradley, and Mrs. Laura Brown.

Episode 190 Little House on the Prairie ch. 16 "Name Cards" Join us this week as we discuss Mr. Clewett, Frank Gilbert, the autographs in Laura's book, the history of name cards, Jake Hopp, how much twenty-five cents is, what is the greenie?, bobolinks, cornflowers, and the origin of Almanzo's name.