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Author Kalish, Mildred Armstrong.

Title Little heathens : hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression / Mildred Armstrong Kalish.

Publication Info. New York : Bantam Books, 2007.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  977.761 KALISH    DUE 11-09-10 Billed
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY KALISH, MILDRED    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B KALISH    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  977.7 K    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  814.54 KALISH    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  977.761 KALISH    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  977.7 KAL    Check Shelf
Description x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Subject Kalish, Mildred Armstrong -- Childhood and youth.
Kalish, Mildred Armstrong -- Family.
Farm life -- Iowa -- Benton County -- History -- 20th century.
Benton County (Iowa) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Iowa -- Benton County.
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Iowa -- Benton County.
Rural families -- Iowa -- Benton County.
Benton County (Iowa) -- Rural conditions.
Benton County (Iowa) -- Biography.
Iowa -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
ISBN 0553804952 hardcover
9780553804959 hardcover
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