Trundlebed Tales

A lot happened last year because of the big anniversary, but there's still interesting stuff going on this year. Since this is late we'll go through some of the big events this year and what we're still looking forward to. Whether you're interested in the TV show, the museums, or books, there is a lot going on.

Debra Reid, Curator of Agriculture and the Environment at The Henry Ford, joins host Sarah Uthoff to talk agriculture. Laura didn't just live in Little Houses, she lived on farms across the Midwest. But while people tend to have one idea about what farms were like in the past, it was really much more complicated. We'll examine how agriculture has helped the country through the fulfillment of the Homestead Act, what Wheat Culture was down to what variety Pa and Almanzo would have grown, and how agriculture changed between the late 19th century and the 1910s and 1920s when the Wilder farm Rocky Ridge was thriving. 

As part of my read aloud celebration AND as an experiment with microphones, I’m doing a series of short (around 10 minute) episodes. The story I'm finishing today is "Why Reddy Fox Has No Friends."

Get a jump on everything going on in Laura Ingalls Wilder fandom during December 2018. We’ll check in on the Laura Ingalls Wilder museums having special events, the opening of Laura Ingalls Wilder homesite season, and my programs. Find out more about Mansfield, Missouri; Burr Oak, Iowa; Spring Valley, Minnesota, and William T. Anderson.

Join us as we talk with long time cookbook collector and home economist Susan Uthoff. Uthoff has been collecting cookbooks for over 50 years. Find out how she selects the books and categorizes them. She'll also give some tips to what to look for to find a quality cookbook and some suggestions on how to do your own cookbook.

As part of my read aloud celebration AND as an experiment with microphones, I’m doing a series of short (around 10 minute) episodes. The story I'm starting today is "Why Reddy Fox Has No Friends."

As part of my read aloud celebration AND as an experiment with microphones, I’m doing a series of short (around 10 minute) episodes. I’m reading Danny Meadow Mouse Learns Why His Tail is Short.

Since I didn’t get an episode done for National Read Aloud Day, I decided to do a short series of episodes reading a book instead. I’ve chosen stories from “Mother West Wind’s Children” by Thornton W. Burgess. I also wanted to do some short episodes because I want to test various microphones so we can hear the difference before I do some longer episodes I have coming up. Let me know what you think. I’m going to do about 10 minute episodes. If the story takes longer than that I’ll find a good breaking point and I’ll continue in the next episode.