Cook Memorial Library

• [[bookjacket|]]

• Title

  • Little Heathens : Hard Times And High Spirits On An Iowa Farm During The Great Depression

• Attribution

  Mildred Armstrong Kalish

• Format

  Book

• Published

  2007

• Availability

  [[availability|tl34696000308002]]

• Call Number

  • 630 Kal PBK

• links

  • loc.gov
  • loc.gov
  • loc.gov

• Author

  • Kalish, Mildred Armstrong.

• Subject

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

• 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.

• ISBN

  • 9780553384246
  • 9780553804959

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