Always Put in a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowa's Best-Known Homemaker |
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| Author:
| Birkby, Evelyn |
| Series title: | Bur Oak Book Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60938-115-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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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 interests of her family, friends, and neighbors. Her perceptive, closely observed columns provide a multigenerational biography of rural and small-town life in the Midwest over...
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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 interests of her family, friends, and neighbors. Her perceptive, closely observed columns provide a multigenerational biography of rural and small-town life in the Midwest over decades of change. Now she has sifted through thousands of columns to give us her favorites, guaranteed to delight her many longtime and newfound fans.