Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl

by Carol Bodensteiner

Overview

Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl delivers a treat as delicious as oatmeal cookies hot out of the oven - a memoir of a happy childhood. In charming and memorable vignettes, Carol Bodensteiner captures rural life in middle America, in the middle of the 20th Century. Bodensteiner grew up on a family-owned dairy farm in the 1950s, a time when a family could make a good living on 180 acres. In these pages you can step back and relish a time simple but not easy, a time innocent yet challenging. If you grew up in rural America, these stories will trigger your memories and your senses, releasing a wealth of stories of your own. If the rural Midwest is foreign territory to you, Carol's stories will invite you into a fascinating and disappearing world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780979799709
Publisher:	Rising Sun Press
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	220
Sales rank:	354,330
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	10 Years

Table of Contents

Prologue, 1-Country Hospitality, 2-Sunday Dinner, 3-A Cow Story, 4-Mulberry Pie, 5-The Harvest Auction, 6-Turning 10, 7-House Chores, 8-A Dangerous Game, 9-The County Fair & The Teddy Bear, 10-Options, 11-I Bet You a Million Bucks, 12-Laundry Lessons, 13-Another Cow Story, 14-Economics 101, 14-One Christmas, 15-Making Hay, 16-Ashes, 17-Epilogue, Reader Discussion Guide

Editorial Reviews

"If you have ever milked cows, made hay, dressed chickens, or wondered about Santa Claus ... you'll identify with these situations." --Lee Kline, WHO Radio "Carol's book evolves into a page turner, not because of high drama but rather because we come to care for this little girl who's living a good, simple life."--Mary Kay Shanley, author "Celebrates an important time in the history of American agriculture."--Mark Pearson, host of "Market to Market," Iowa Public Television Growing Up Country "is an inspiration. We've had a good life with the cows. Thanks for the memories."--another farm girl who grew up country

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