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Always put in a recipe and other tips for living from Iowa's best known homemaker /
In 1949, Iowa farm wife Evelyn Birkby began to write a weekly column entitled "Up a Country Lane" for the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel, now called the Valley News. Sixty-three years, one Royal typewriter, and five computers later, she is still creating a weekly record of the lives and inter...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Bur oak book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Times Have Changed; Looking Back; My First Column, November 24, 1949; A Tune from a Music Box; Grandma Dragoo's Attic; Aunt Lena and Uncle Lute; The Old Buffet; My Father's Background; Always Put in a Recipe; How It Began; Potlucks; Mother Couldn't Teach Me to Cook; Aprons; Recipe Goofs; Judging at the Iowa State Fair; My Signature Recipe; Farm Life; The Good Old Days; Porches; Back Doors; Cottonwood Farm's Ghost; Canning; Moving Day; Children; Dulcie Jean's Kindergarten; Children in Church; Craig's First Smile; Supper Talk; Jeff Runs Away from Home.
- A Houseful of MenClean Socks at Summer Camp; Winters Past; Be Prepared; Cub Scout Catastrophes; Cub Scout Den Mother; Bob Becomes a Scout; Freeze Outs; Visiting Scouts; Pity Mrs. Noah; Spiders, Skunks, and Salamanders; A Company Keeper Called Silver; The Snake Trap; Sammy the Salamander; Friends in Our Yard; The World of Ants; Our Own Husky; The Bees of Honey Hill; Travel; The House Car; Westward Ho; Yellowstone Bears; The Turtle; Gooseberry Falls State Park; Presque Isle, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park; The Black Inner Tube; The Loess Hills Beckoned; Holidays; The Easter Egg Tree.
- Craig's HalloweenThanksgiving; Shopping on the Day before Christmas; The Sugar Cube House; Dulcie Jean's Four Pennies; Robert's Four-Year-Old Class; The Family at Christmastime, 1969; New Year's, 2000; Leaning on Everlasting Arms; Dulcie Jean's Death; Dulcie Jean's Final Column; The Story of Two Mothers; The Return to Farragut of One of Its Boys; Grandma Mae Corrie; Grandpa "Shorty" Birkby; Grandma Lucretia "Dulcy" Birkby; My Sister Ruth; A Country Church in Winter; In Sickness andin Health; The Wedding of Robert and Evelyn; The Night the Bed Fellon Our Honeymoon.
- Marriage: The First Ten YearsThirty-Five Years Remembered; Sixty-Four Years and Counting; Spreading My Wings; Leanna and Me; Michael and Jane Stern; My Friendship with Fannie Flagg; Iowa Public Television Comes Calling; Shenandoah's Walk of Fame; A Gaggle of Radio Homemakers; Simpson College, My Alma Mater; Aging Is an Opportunity; It Is What It Is; Too Old to Be Elderly; Facebook
- The Modern Hollow Tree; My Ninth Decade.