![]() ![]() ![]() This was a good book to read while I was sick part memoir, part cookbook, part instruction manual for life on a farm. Kalish's love of nature pervades every page, and her ethos of hard work and self-discipline will have you itching put up some tomatoes and try out her recipe for homemade marshmallows. Book Review: Little Heathens by Wendy Copley on NovemI just finished a great book, Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish. (The list of chores for the "big kids" would bring me to my knees.) But the children got to run barefoot, raise baby raccoons, and sneak secret rides on their uncle's unbroken colts. ![]() I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For those of us who have never brought in hay, sown potatoes, or killed our own dinner, the book will make you realize how easy life in the US has become. Read 1,338 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. A cheerful attitude invigorates "Little Heathens" (as her grandmother called the kids) and gives it an air as clean as laundry pulled off the line. She includes recipes, home remedies, and advice on how to butcher poultry, but you won't find a whine from beginning to end. So how does the author of "Little Heathens" look back on those Iowa years? "I have come to view that time as a gift," she writes in her generous-hearted new memoir. ![]() Her family was forced to move in with her puritanical grandparents (who kept a buggy whip handy). Mildred Armstrong Kalish was 5-years-old the last time she saw her dad. ![]()
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