May I suggest a book that I think you are going to love?

[FarmerDenise]

I'll have to see if our library has it. We are do for some rainy days, I'll need a fun book to read

 

[big brown horse]

She had one tough grandma!

Grandma apparently decided that my puny 12 month old sister, Avis, should be weaned, and snatched the nursing baby from my mother's breast. The tiny infant wailed at the top of her lungs. "Let her cry!" Grandma declared. "You can't begin character building too soon!"

 

[VickiLynn]

Thanks for the words of welcome.
You guys rock!

 

[Henrietta23]

LITTLE HEATHENS (of course the title grabbed me right away! ) "Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression" A true story by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

I read this about 2 years ago and fell in love. Now after finally unpacking all of my books after the move, I found it again. I am in the process of rereading it with my new SS perspective. It is almost like reading a brand new book.

Anyway, here are some of the chapter and sub-chapter titles:

The Family
Great-Grandpa Jonathan
Aunt Belle
Thanksgiving

Building Character
Oral Influences
Literary Influences
Religious Influences
Thrift
Medicine
Chores
Farm Food
Water Windmill
Milking and Other Nightly Chores
Wash Day
Outhouses

Fall/Winter
Country School
Gathering Nuts
Gathering Wood
Winter Is Icumen In, Lhude Sing G*&^%$! (cant type that)

Spring Summer
Leisure Time
Gardening
May Baskets
Birds
Racoons and Other Critters

"Saturated with pure charm and polished by real, rare happiness..."

A VERY GOOD BOOK! I learned so much the first time I read it, and she writes so well, you can't put it down. ENJOY!

My library has it!!!! Whhooooooohooooo! I'm headed there tomorrow!

 

[freemotion]

OK, I am e-mailing my favorite librarian to order it.....she checks books out on my card and delivers them to me! Then wipes out my fines!!!! It is good to be loved!!!

I give her compost....

Grandma sounds like a nightmare!

 

[Henrietta23]

OK, I am e-mailing my favorite librarian to order it.....she checks books out on my card and delivers them to me! Then wipes out my fines!!!! It is good to be loved!!!

I give her compost....

Grandma sounds like a nightmare!

Mine orders chicks for me and lets me know of any discards she thinks I might be interested in. Like the one that was for sale on Amazon used for about $300! Her name is Marion, which absolutely cracks me up!

 

[big brown horse]

I hope you all can get it, I loved it.

Her grandma was tough, but she had a softie grandma too...so it kind of balanced out...kinda. (That is all I'm saying!)

 

[TanksHill]

Thanks for the recommendation BBH I will have to keep my eye open for it.

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[The YardFarmers]

Ordered it into my library. Sounds like my kind of book too. (Now I know why I joined this group! Birds of a feather............)

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Augustmomx2]

I read that one about a year ago and LOVED it. There was so much info that I never expected to be in there