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Little heathens [electronic resource] : hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression / Mildred Armstrong Kalish.

Kalish, Mildred Armstrong. (Author).

Summary:

A memoir from a schoolteacher of growing up in the heart of the Midwest during the Great Depression describes life on an Iowa farm during a time of endless work, resourcefulness, no tolerance for idleness or waste, family, and kinship.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780553903782 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
  • ISBN: 0553903780 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
  • ISBN: 9780553903782 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
  • ISBN: 0553903780 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 292 p.) : ill.
  • Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2007.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
1: The family -- Foreground -- Great-Grandpa Jonathan -- Aunt Belle -- Thanksgiving -- 2: Building character -- Oral influences -- Literary influences -- Religious influences -- Thrift -- Medicine -- Chores -- Farm food -- An especially pleasant chore -- Water windmill -- Milking and other nightly chores -- Wash day -- Outhouses -- 3: Fall/Winter -- Country school: Monroe Number 6 -- Box social -- Gathering nuts -- Gathering wood -- Winter is Icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm! -- Town school: Garrison -- 4: Spring/Summer -- Leisure time -- Gardening -- Spring in Yankee Grove -- May baskets -- Birds -- Animal tales -- Raccoons and other critters.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.

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Subject: Kalish, Mildred Armstrong > Childhood and youth.
Kalish, Mildred Armstrong > Family.
Farm life > Iowa > Benton County > History > 20th century.
Benton County (Iowa) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Depressions > 1929 > Iowa > Benton County.
New Deal, 1933-1939 > Iowa > Benton County.
Rural families > Iowa > Benton County.
Benton County (Iowa) > Rural conditions.
Benton County (Iowa) > Biography.
Iowa > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Kalish, Mildred Armstrong > Enfance et jeunesse.
Vie rurale > Iowa (États-Unis) > 20e siècle.
Crises économiques > Iowa (États-Unis) > 20e siècle.
New Deal > Iowa (États-Unis)
États-Unis > Biographies.
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