Later I worked as a hired girl on two local farms. The summer I turned thirteen I became the companion, cook and caretaker of a retired missionary. Little Heathens details the remarkable challenges and the inestimable rewards of living a rural life where children were expected to accept responsibilities beyond the ordinary.įrom early on, I was eager to be self-supporting and independent. My growing-up was influenced by the Great Depression and by the self-reliance and work ethic of my mother’s parents - themselves descendants of pioneers who never quite made it into the 20th Century. Patrick’s Day in 1922, on a farm near Garrison, Iowa, in Benton County. After my high school graduation, I earned an Elementary Teacher’s Ce I was born on St. From early on, I was eager to be self-supporting and independent. Little Heathens details the remarkable challenges and the inestimable rewards of living a rural life where children were expected to accept responsibilities beyond the ordinary.
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