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Author:

Kalish, Mildred Armstrong.

Title:

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

Edition:

Bantam trade pbk ed.

Publisher:

Bantam Books,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 292 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Kalish, Mildred Armstrong--Childhood and youth.
Kalish, Mildred Armstrong--Family.
Farm life--Benton County--Benton County--History--20th century.
Benton County (Iowa)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Depressions--1929--Benton County.--Benton County.
New Deal, 1933-1939--Benton County.--Benton County.
Rural families--Benton County.--Benton County.
Benton County (Iowa)--Rural conditions.
Benton County (Iowa)--Biography.
Iowa--Social life and customs--20th century.

Notes:

Originally published: 2007.

Contents:

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 -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

9780553384246 (pbk.) :
0553384244 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)226376919

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