MaYaND 006: CB 06: The Secret of Red Gate Farm

Me and You and Nancy Drew Episode 006-Classic Book Episode 06: The Secret of Red Gate Farm (1961) by Carolyn Keene!

In this episode, Meghan and Colleen discuss wishing wells, elevator laws, and pumping gas in New Jersey…as well as the actual contents of The Secret of Red Gate Farm (1961)!

Corrections: When we said “poisonous,” we actually meant “venomous.” Our bad! Also, we erroneously said that Nancy got peas as a midday snack from the drugstore in a previous book. That’s totally false; she got a normal snack (split pea soup) from the drugstore.

Notes: CW for discussion of Orientalism and the KKK (as both are large parts of this book, including the book referring to Asian people as “Oriental”). As a palate cleanser, we’d like to suggest the middle grade novel Rainbow Fair by Diana Ma, which features a Chinese-American Muslim girl and is a light, joyful read about intersectional identities. Or, for a less light but still joyful read, we also recommend the book Notre Dame vs. The Klan by Todd Tucker, about one of the reasons why Notre Dame are known as the Fighting Irish (hint: it’s for physically fighting the KKK out of South Bend, Indiana—sometimes using actual potatoes as tools). Finally, Colleen would like to clarify that their phrasing around Nancy possibly being aromantic sounds different than how they intended it; their intention was not to imply that aromanticism does not fall under the queer umbrella (it does!), but simply to imply that Nancy not expressing interest in Carl Junior in this novel might not imply that Nancy is only into women, as it could instead imply that she is on the aro/ace spectrum and isn’t into anyone!

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