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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.”

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