Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl - Softcover

Bodensteiner, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979799708 ISBN 13: 9780979799709

Publisher: Rising Sun Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"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

Edition details

• Publisher: Rising Sun Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979799708
• ISBN 13: 9780979799709
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 218