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Author:
Prochaska, Jerry.
Title:
Osage stories : Memories of a small Midwestern town / Mildred Armstrong Kalish.
Edition:
first edition.
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
iv, 235 pages : ill.; maps ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Prochaska, Jerry--Childhood and youth.
Prochaska, Jerry--Family.
Depressions --1929--Mitchell County.--Mitchell County.
Great Depression, 1929-1939--Mitchell County (Iowa.)
Rural families--Mitchell County.--Mitchell County.
Mitchell County (Iowa)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Mitchell County (Iowa)--Rural conditions.
Iowa--Social life and customs--20th century.
Notes:
"Layout and design by PXL PWR Multimedia Studio" -- Cover. "Printed by Createspace" -- Cover.
Summary:
The Great Depression was cruel to small Iowa towns, and doubly cruel to an Osage widow with four small children. Her youngest child guides us in and around the town, noting with side-glances in windows and open doors the important events in the lives of the town's people, and the challenges he faces in a poverty-stricken home. With pitch-perfect ears for Midwestern dialog, his stories are wry, funny, sad and poignant- but never nostalgic or sentimental. If a small town could write a memoir, this would be it!.
ISBN:
1500795070 paperback :
9781500795078 paperback :
LCCN:
2014914558
Locations:
FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)

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