Knapsacks and Ditty-Bags | Woodcraft
Tonight, we’ll read the opening to “Woodcraft” published by George Washington “Nessmuk” Sears. Sears was a sportswriter for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist. His st...
10 Jul 20236min
The Boxcar Children pt. 4
Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “The Boxcar Children” written by school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner and published in 1924.The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry...
7 Jul 202331min
The Valiant Little Tailor
Tonight, we’ll read from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm titled “The Valiant Little Tailor.” This episode originally aired in July of 2021.In this story, the tailor starts out hav...
5 Jul 202340min
Baking Powder Bread
Tonight, we’ll read from “The New Royal Cook Book by Royal Baking Powder Co.” published in 1920.When the first truly American cookbook was published in 1792, the recipes included used three possible t...
3 Jul 202332min
Pride and Prejudice pt. 36
Tonight, we shall read the next part to “Pride and Prejudice”, written by Jane Austen.In the last episode, Lydia and Wickham arrive at Longbourn. Lydia is giddy over her marriage, mocking her older si...
30 Jun 202330min
The Great Gatsby
Tonight, we’ll read an excerpt from “The Great Gatsby,” a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions...
28 Jun 202340min
Winter | Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal
Tonight, we’ll read from Dorothy Wordsworth’s personal journal, which she kept the year 1798. It was published a century later in 1897.Wordsworth was an English author, poet, and diarist. She was the ...
26 Jun 202331min
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea pt. 16
Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne.In the last episode, electricity temporarily fails ...
23 Jun 202332min
