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

Description

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.

Kalish counts herself among the lucky of that era. She had caring grandparents who possessed—and valiantly tried to impose—all the pioneer virtues of their forebears, teachers who inspired and befriended her, and a barnyard full of animals ready to be tamed and loved. She and her siblings and their cousins from the farm across the way played as hard as they worked, running barefoot through the fields, as free and wild as they dared.

Filled with recipes and how-tos for everything from catching and skinning a rabbit to preparing homemade skin and hair beautifiers, apple cream pie, and the world’s best head cheese (start by scrubbing the head of the pig until it is pink and clean), Little Heathens portrays a world of hardship and hard work tempered by simple rewards. There was the unsurpassed flavor of tender new dandelion greens harvested as soon as the snow melted; the taste of crystal clear marble-sized balls of honey robbed from a bumblebee nest; the sweet smell from the body of a lamb sleeping on sun-warmed grass; and the magical quality of oat shocking under the light of a full harvest moon.

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.”


From the Hardcover edition.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-16
Summary: "Memoirs of a Depression Kid"

How things have changed from yesterday to today. This is a delightful memoir filled with loads of humor. In fact, there are quite a few laughs to be gotten from reading this book, plus lots of human knowledge. There was plenty of hard work, both housework and farm chores that needed to be done. But there were many hands to get it accomplished. Even the youngest, the little kids, as the author calls them were made to help. So the family all worked together.

There were seven in Mildred's immediate family, Mildred's grandparents, her mother, two older brothers, Mildred herself, and her little sister. Her father was absent from the family and never heard from. Mildred never knew why.

The grandparents were strict and expected good behavior, good manners, and good conduct from their grandchildren. Strong character was needed and should be built from babyhood. Grandpa was land rich, he owned four farms, but money was scarce. During long cold Iowa winters only the living room and kitchen were heated to conserve heat. Mrs Kalich was brought up upon saving,recycling everything.recycle, recycle as everything was used and reused and reused again in her childhood home. That family was today modern as people of today are encouraaged to recycle, recycle, recycle. The kids were required to eat healthy and to eat everything on their plates. Waste not, want not was one of the mottos of the grandparents plus many other bon mots. Mildred, her mother and other siblings would move out to Grandpa's farm from September until Christmas and attend a one room school where her mother had once taught. Their mother pretty much allowed her kids to do whatever they wanted to, to have much more freedom. So Mildred and her brothers and sister were brought up in two opposite ways, too strict, too much freedom.

There was wonderful Great Aunt Belle who was as much a kid as her great nephews and nieces and was good at spoiling them, making up parties and games. She gave Mildred a good opinion of herself. She was as good and as pretty as any other little girl. Mildred, as too many little girls, felt she was not pretty.

There was plenty of food. Thanksgiving was well celebrated. Relatives came together and all brought their best dishes. Mrs Kalish writes about all the home grown food plus well fed animals. To this day she states she has never tasted food as good as the home cooking, home grown food of her childhood. There is a section in this book containing recipes for farm food. This family had an abundance of food. Books and magazines were welcome in this house and the kids were encouraged to read. The whole family, except Grandma, was readers. This is so, so, so different from many homes during the Great Depression. Too many people had little food and couldn't even afford newspapers. This house was well to do. However, there was very few homes with indoor plumbing in the small Iowa town Professor Kalich was from. Indoor plumbing was a luxury. Children were switched with a buggy whip. When they got in trouble in school they got worse when their parents heard of their misdeeds. Things are much different today. Mildred went to the small town school when she was staying in town.

Because of her country upbringing, Professor Kalich learned to know the names of trees, flowers, plants and to love all of them. She had many different animal pets, both domestic and wild. She learned to love the verdant country with its seasons to love nature and wild things.

Mrs Kalich has come far from her childhood roots but it has made her into the strong and independant woman she has become.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-08-03
Summary: "A Little Disappointing"

I had this recommended to me and read many of the reviews before buying. But no where did I find anyone who mentioned the bad language. In fact, there's a whole chapter, listing the words that were said and by whom. Also, I guess I expected the book to be one about survival but the author's family was obviously well-to-do. My parents grew up on farms in big families during the Depression but their lifestyles were obviously much different. I didn't see any cornbread and buttermilk suppers. Also, much of their daily lives were built around the church, something the author has little use for. It's probably the area of the country they were raised in but I read this book, planning to pass it along to the four "girls" still living (2 in their 90s) but I'm afraid it's a little too "high spirited." It frankly sometimes read almost like it was being copied from a notebook and the author wanted to make certain she included everything that was expected in a book like this. A few times the book was entertaining but other times I was left wondering if some of these things really happened or they were just included to "spice" up the book. I sure would have liked to have known the names of the "Big Kids" and "Little Kids", their anonymity leaving the reader wondering. I can't recommend this to my 91 year old mother or my 13 year old grandson because of the language and of the cavalier attitude toward churches, both something that some people take seriously.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-25
Summary: "Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm durning the Great Depression"

I recommend Little Heathens completely. Mildred A. Kalish captures the experience of growing up during the depression on a farm so completely. Her book is an inspiration and so very highly recommended. Although I am somewhat younger than Mrs. Kalish, I grew up in similar circumstances on a Michigan farm & found it hard to put the book down. Enjoy.
Robert Jones

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-09
Summary: "A book to own and keep"

I read this book when it first came out, loaned by my library. A year later, I want to re-read it and knew it was a keeper, so I bought it through Amazon. Even if only
for the recipes, one should own this book, but I have now re-read it three times for memories and prose as rich as fresh cream from Millie's Iowa farm. Millie is
a great role model in another way: how old was she when she first published a book???? Thank you, Millie.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-02-11
Summary: "Iowa book"

LITTLE HEATHENS gives the experience of a young girl growing up in Iowa during the Depression. Good portrayal.