Record details

• ISBN: 9781602851917
• ISBN: 1602851913
• Physical Description: 329 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
• Edition: LARGE PRINT EDITION.
• Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Pub., 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: New York : Bantam, 2007.

Formatted Contents Note:

I Family -- 1 Foreground 17 -- 2 Great-Grandpa Jonathan 30 -- 3 Aunt Belle 37 -- 4 Thanksgiving 48 -- II Building Character -- 5 Oral Influences 61 -- 6 Literary Influences 74 -- 7 Religious Influences 80 -- 8 Thrift 95 -- 9 Medicine 106 -- 10 Chores 120 -- 11 Farm Food 134 -- 12 An Especially Pleasant Chore 166 -- 13 Water Windmill 169 -- 14 Milking and Other Nightly Chores 172 -- 15 Wash Day 177 -- 16 Outhouses 184 -- III Fall/Winter -- 17 Country School: Monroe Number 6 193 -- 18 Box Social 203 -- 19 Gathering Nuts 206 -- 20 Gathering Wood 216 -- 21 Winter Is Icumen In, Lhude Sing Goddamm! 220 -- 22 Town School: Garrison 228 -- IV Spring/Summer -- 23 Leisure Time 239 -- 24 Gardening 251 -- 25 Spring in Yankee Grove 260 -- 26 May Baskets 270 -- 27 Birds 274 -- 28 Animal Tales 278 -- 29 Raccoons and Other Critters 289 -- 30 Me 301.

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Subject:

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

Genre:

Large print books.
Biographies.