Pumpkins, Wolves, and the Erie Canal - October 26
On the Vine and on the Whine Learning
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Today is Howl at The Moon Night, National Pumpkin Day, Chicken Fried Steak Day, Visit a Cemetery Day, and Mince Meat Pie Day.
Animal Cam of the Day: Bat World Sanctuary Bat Cams
Dessert of the Day: Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffins
LGBT History Resource of the Day: Behind the Lens: Leo Herrera Imagines an Alternate World Without AIDS
Scary Resource of the Day: Monstrum: The Killer Origins of the Werewolf
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1774 - The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Pumpkins, Wolves, and the Erie Canal
- 1774 - The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
- 1825 - The Erie Canal opens, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
- 1881 - The gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and "Doc" Holliday and Ike Clanton's gang leaves three members of the Clanton gang dead.
- 1994 - Israel and Jordan sign a peace treaty.
- 2001 - The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
- 2005 - The Chicago White Sox beat the Houston Astros in Game four to win their first World Series since 1917.
- 1911 - Singer Mahalia Jackson
- 1941 - Children's author and illustrator Steven Kellogg
- 1946 - Game show host Pat Sajak
- 1947 - Politician Hillary Clinton
- 1951 - Painter and director Julian Schnabel
- Mahalia Jackson -
Amazing Grace - LISTEN - Pete Seeger - The Erie Canal - LISTEN
Bruce Springsteen - The Erie Canal - LISTEN - The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight - LISTEN
- Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf - LISTEN
- Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Making Pumpkin Faces (1:23) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Surprises in the Pumpkin Patch (1:25) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Pumpkins on Halloween (1:50) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck: Pumpkin Soup (5:01) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Daisy's Pretty Pumpkin (3:45) - VIEW
- Grades K-3 - Dinosaur Train - Pumpkin Contest (2:42) - VIEW
- Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Count On It! - Blossom and Snappy Go to the Farm, Part I (26:40) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Count On It! - Blossom and Snappy Go to the Farm, Part 2 (26:47) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-3 - Ready Jet Go! - Carving Out the Pumpkin (2:37) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Pumpkin Carving (1:31) - VIEW
- Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - "Ugly" Food and Food Waste (2:31) - VIEW and DO
- Grade 4 - PBS LearningMedia - Lessons in Matter and Energy - Barfing Pumpkin (2:16) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS Video - Monster Pumpkin (1:20) - VIEW and DO
- Grades Parents - PBS Parents - Math with Pumpkins - DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - How Does It Grow - The ORIGINAL Pumpkin Pie (1:19) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - How Does It Grow - Pumpkin (3:43) - VIEW
THEME: Wolves
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Catching the Big Bad Wolf - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Big Sad Wolf - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kermit Casts the Big Bad Wolf - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -The New Three Little Pigs Story - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - Wild Kratts - Running Like Wolves Collection - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - Wild Kratts - Howl Like a Wolf - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Arctic Wolf Cubs Learn Pack Behavior - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Wolfpack in the Woods - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Wolves - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Keeping Up With the Wolfpack - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Wolves - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth: A New Wild - Wolves of Yellowstone (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Canidae - Coyotes, Dogs, and Wolves - READ
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Red Wolf - READ
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Saving a Species - Wolves - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wolves: The Ecology of Fear - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves - VIEW
THEME: ERIE CANAL
- Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Building the Erie Canal - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - 10 That Changed America - When Mules Ruled the Canal (2:40) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Impact of the Erie Canal on America (1:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - 15 Miles On The Erie Canal Part 1 (57:10) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - 15 Miles On The Erie Canal Part 2 (47:40) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Canal Towns (1:01:26) - VIEW
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