Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression, (Paperback)

from sharlene_w

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Ruth Ann Phimister read the audio version of this book. It was like listening to the author herself regale me with tales of her childhood. Little Heathens discloses everything you wanted to know about life in the 30s but your grandmother (or mother) didn't get ar...

from MystiqueWillow

Little Heathens : Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression For months, I passed the shelf at the book store on which this book sat. I mean, I picked it up occasionally, I read the blurb on the back, and then I would stare at the front as if waiting for a sign to buy...

from mrtall

Memoirs have been hot in the past decade or two, so you might look at Mildred Kalish's Little Heathens and think, meh, just another long-winded whine about the horrible childhood someone can't shut up about. This would be unfortunate. For although Kalish has fodder aplenty for a typical contempor...

from sriemann

This reminded me of the books I am reading by Alice Taylor about her childhood in rural Ireland. I wish there were more books like this about how things were done before the advent of so much machinery, industrialism, and big agri-business. The author doesn't gloss over how hard things were, thou...

from kreativiT

I enjoyed this book a lot. While the setting is the Great Depression, I think any one who grew up on a farm will find some familiar things. I love that the book includes favorite recipes as well as remembrances and plan on trying a few. I will pass this along to other family members and I'm sure ...