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Little heathens
hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression
Bantam trade pbk ed.
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
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A memoir from a schoolteacher of growing up in the heart of the Midwest during the Great Depression describes her close family life on an Iowa farm during a time of endless work and resourcefulness, with no tolerance for idleness or waste.
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Social life and customs, Depressions, Family, Farm family, Great Depression, 1929-1939, New Deal, 1933-1939, Rural families, Rural conditions, Farm life, Childhood and youth, Biography, History, Farm life, united states, Depressions, 1929, New deal, 1933-1939, Iowa, social life and customs, Iowa, biography, United states, rural conditions, Family, united states, New York Times reviewedPeople
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Little heathens: hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression
2008
in English
- Bantam trade pbk ed.
0553384244 9780553384246
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Table of 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.
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Originally published: 2007.
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