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

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.

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.”

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If you're looking for a followup read to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books and/or Ralph Moody's Little Britches series, look no further than Mildred Armstrong Kalish's Little Heathens. It's early 20th-century, not 19th, but Kalish's book includes all the stuff your dear child loved about Laura Ingalls Wilder and more. There's less of a storyline--more short chapters on individual topics of farm and family life--than the Wilder books, but it's amazing. You'll love it.

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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages ( Download PDF :  )


• Publisher: Bantam; 1 edition (May 29, 2007)


• Language: English


• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 0.8 x 8.6 inches


• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds


• Author: Mildred Armstrong Kalish


• ISBN-10: 0553804952


• ISBN-13: 978-0553804959

About the Author

Mildred Kalish is a retired professor of English who grew up in Garrison, Iowa, and taught at several colleges, including the University of Iowa, Adelphi University, and Suffolk Community College. She now lives with her husband in northern California.

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