Little heathens, hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression, Mildred Armstrong Kalish
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Little heathens, hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression, Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Language
eng
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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illustrations
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Little heathens
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
232009122
Responsibility statement
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Sub title
hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression
Summary
A memoir from a schoolteacher of growing up in the heart of the Midwest during the Great Depression describes life on an Iowa farm during a time of endless work, resourcefulness, no tolerance for idleness or waste, family, and kinship
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
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- Farm life -- Iowa -- Benton County -- History -- 20th century
- New Deal -- Iowa (États-Unis)
- Vie rurale -- Iowa (États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
- Crises économiques -- Iowa (États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
- Benton County (Iowa) -- Rural conditions
- Kalish, Mildred Armstrong -- Family
- Electronic books
- Iowa -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Kalish, Mildred Armstrong -- Enfance et jeunesse
- New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Iowa -- Benton County
- Benton County (Iowa) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Rural families -- Iowa -- Benton County
- Kalish, Mildred Armstrong -- Childhood and youth
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Iowa -- Benton County
- Benton County (Iowa) -- Biography
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- Farm life -- Iowa -- Benton County -- History -- 20th century
- New Deal -- Iowa (États-Unis)
- Vie rurale -- Iowa (États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
- Crises économiques -- Iowa (États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
- Benton County (Iowa) -- Rural conditions
- Kalish, Mildred Armstrong -- Family
- Electronic books
- Iowa -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Kalish, Mildred Armstrong -- Enfance et jeunesse
- New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Iowa -- Benton County
- Benton County (Iowa) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Rural families -- Iowa -- Benton County
- Kalish, Mildred Armstrong -- Childhood and youth
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Iowa -- Benton County
- Benton County (Iowa) -- Biography
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