Title: A place to grow : remembering an Iowa childhood /
Authors: Bucksbaum, Carolyn Swartz.
Publisher: History Works,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Bucksbaum, Carolyn Swartz Childhood and youth.; Jews Iowa Des Moines Biography.; Des Moines (Iowa) Social life and customs; Iowa Biography.
Contents: Our relatives -- My immediate family -- At home on Polk Boulevard -- Good neighbors -- Best : friends the Patterson family -- Mealtimes -- Iowa's great out-of-doors -- School days, school days -- Arts : a lifelong love affair -- Sickness and wellness -- A strict upbringing? -- Growing up in Jewish Des Moines -- The Great Depression -- Going places -- World War Ii -- My Grinnell years -- An end to girlhood -- Etcetera -- Thanks.