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Bezig met laden... Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression (origineel 2007; editie 2007)door Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Informatie over het werkLittle Heathens door Mildred Armstrong Kalish (2007)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I expected more from this book, considering the reviews. There just isn't much new here. Any half-educated person knows about this kind of life during the Depression. No special insight. ( ) nonfiction/memoirs (growing up on Iowa farm in 1930s). Some chapters I skimmed, but it was all pretty interesting--especially the home remedies and cooking secrets (have to try baking powder in the mashed potatoes for extra fluffiness; also will soon be adding fresh pan-fried potatoes to my weekend breakfasts--p.128). I don't think I sent a comment on your last book, Hillbilly Elegy, but I thought it was very enlightening about a subculture that I lived in and around my whole life. My husband actually came from the same area in Kentucky as J.D. Vance and had a somewhat different experience but also "got above his raisin' " as we said in Kentucky and southern West Virginia. Now this month's book, Little Heathens, is a look at another U.S. subculture that I could identify with even more closely even though, on the surface, it didn't seem to fit my experience at all. I grew up in small town West Virginia, much more a coal mining than a farming area, but many of the depression era values described in this book certainly pertained to my family. My experience of "use up, make do, do without," calm acceptance of hardship, and subdued emotions was much more the norm in my family and others around me than the violence and fierce clannishness of Hillbilly Elegy. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: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.”. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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