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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression Features
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ISBN13: 9780553384246
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Additional Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression Information
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I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and excitement of it all, I report on my early life. It was quite a romp.
So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm during the depths of the Great Depression. With her father banished from the household for mysterious transgressions, five-year-old Mildred and her family could easily have been overwhelmed by the challenge of simply trying to survive. This, however, is not a tale of suffering.
Kalish counts herself among the lucky of that era. She had caring grandparents who possessed—and valiantly tried to impose—all the pioneer virtues of their forebears, teachers who inspired and befriended her, and a barnyard full of animals ready to be tamed and loved. She and her siblings and their cousins from the farm across the way played as hard as they worked, running barefoot through the fields, as free and wild as they dared.
Filled with recipes and how-tos for everything from catching and skinning a rabbit to preparing homemade skin and hair beautifiers, apple cream pie, and the world’s best head cheese (start by scrubbing the head of the pig until it is pink and clean), Little Heathens portrays a world of hardship and hard work tempered by simple rewards. There was the unsurpassed flavor of tender new dandelion greens harvested as soon as the snow melted; the taste of crystal clear marble-sized balls of honey robbed from a bumblebee nest; the sweet smell from the body of a lamb sleeping on sun-warmed grass; and the magical quality of oat shocking under the light of a full harvest moon.
Little Heathens offers a loving but realistic portrait of a “hearty-handshake Methodist” family that gave its members a remarkable legacy of kinship, kindness, and remembered pleasures. Recounted in a luminous narrative filled with tenderness and humor, Kalish’s memoir of her childhood shows how the right stuff can make even the bleakest of times seem like “quite a romp.”
From the Hardcover edition.
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What Customers Say About Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression:
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Her book is an inspiration and so very highly recommended. I recommend Little Heathens completely. Although I am somewhat younger than Mrs. Mildred A. Kalish captures the experience of growing up during the depression on a farm so completely. Kalish, I grew up in similar circumstances on a Michigan farm & found it hard to put the book down. Enjoy.Robert Jones
Even if onlyfor the recipes, one should own this book, but I have now re-read it three times for memories and prose as rich as fresh cream from Millie's Iowa farm. I read this book when it first came out, loaned by my library. A year later, I want to re-read it and knew it was a keeper, so I bought it through Amazon. Millie isa great role model in another way: how old was she when she first published a book. Thank you, Millie.
LITTLE HEATHENS gives the experience of a young girl growing up in Iowa during the Depression. Good portrayal.
Borrowed this book from a friend and thought my mother would enjoy it so I purchsed her a copy.
Kalish makes no attempt to gloss over the hard work involved. There was a time - not that long ago, really - within the memory of many of us, or right before our time - when people made a full life out of "making do." Mildred Kalish's book is a delicious celebration (complete with recipes) of that all-but-vanished part of the American character. People "made do" because there was no alternative, and Mrs. But the pride and satisfaction that comes with the achievement of self-sufficiency through individual and communal responsibility makes the whole book glow with a feeling of "this is as it should be. This is how people are supposed to live together."
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