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Little heathens hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression

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.

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  • 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: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (x, 292 p.) : ill.
  • Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2007.

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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.
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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