![]() 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. 27 likes Like There was a saying in our family that no one ever died people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there. ![]() (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. 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. 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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