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050 _aF 627.B4
_b.K125 2007
100 _aKalish, Mildred Armstrong.
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245 0 _aLittle heathens :
_bhard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression /
_cMildred Armstrong Kalish.
260 _aNew York :
_bBantam Books,
_cc2007.
300 _ax, 292 p. :
_bill.
_c22 cm.
505 _a1: 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.
520 _aA 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.
650 _aDepressions
_zBenton County
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650 _aFarm life
_zIowa
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650 _aNew Deal, 1933-1939
_zIowa
_9110663
650 _aRural families
_zBenton County.
_9110664
650 _zBenton County.
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650 _zBenton County.
_9110665
650 _zIowa
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650 _zIowa
_9110666
942 _cALR
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