Little heathens
Subtitle: hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression
By: Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Edition: Bantam trade pbk ed.
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780553384246
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: 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
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: 2007.
Table of contents: title: 1: The family; title: Foreground; title: Great-Grandpa Jonathan; title: Aunt Belle; title: Thanksgiving; title: 2: Building character; title: Oral influences; title: Literary influences; title: Religious influences; title: Thrift; title: Medicine; title: Chores; title: Farm food; title: An especially pleasant chore; title: Water windmill; title: Milking and other nightly chores; title: Wash day; title: Outhouses; title: 3: Fall/Winter; title: Country school: Monroe Number 6; title: Box social; title: Gathering nuts; title: Gathering wood; title: Winter is Icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm!; title: Town school: Garrison; title: 4: Spring/Summer; title: Leisure time; title: Gardening; title: Spring in Yankee Grove; title: May baskets; title: Birds; title: Animal tales; title: Raccoons and other critters; title: Epilogue.