Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl
by Carol Bodensteiner
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Author: Carol BodensteinerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-01
ISBN: 0979799708
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Rising Sun Press
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Book Review: Farm girl from the heartland
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book, the autobiography of a young girl growing up in the heartland. Carol Bodensteiner,maiden name Denter, grew up on a farm in Iowa, the middle girl of three sisters. Her childhood was not that long ago but children growing up around her childhood in the cities had much different lives. There were movies, fast foods, jeans and different ways of dressing, fancy toys and trips to Disney Land.
Carol Bodensteiner had a wonderful childhood, not wealthy, but loved. The family was close, they all worked together, the children had their chores. Their two grandmothers spent alternate visits with the family so the girls grew to know their grandmothers. The kids loved playing with the baby animals but knew not to get too attached to them or give them names because the cows and chickens were their meal tickets plus their meals. Much chicken! But that was life. The parents were good, honest, decent people who taught their girls their own values to be carried on. Chores had to be done but were made to be fun. Food was home grown. Carol Denton felt honored to help with the milking. Her mother milked and did as much work as her husband. Carol felt grown. Her younger sister got to sleep late, but Carol felt important. Another time she got to drive the tractor with her fathers' help.
The family attended a small country church. When Carol was two, her father gave her a coin to be placed in the offering thus teaching her to honor God and to give to the church. Her mother taught her to cook and to plan meals. She wanted her girls to know their way around the kitchen plus around the rest of the house. The mother made the girls dresses which they wore to school every day. When the weather was cold they could wear long pants under their dresses. On the first day of school the mother lined the girls up and took their pictures. There are black and white pictures throughout the book. Carol and her sisters attended a one room school.
The father told his children never to buy anything they couldn't afford to pay for. He and Carol's mother were close with moeny. Carol Bodensteiner writes of these lessons in different chapters. Vacations lasted for one day, always visiting relatives, leaving after the milking, then returning home around dark.
I enjoyed reading about good, decent, hard working folks who lived the old American way of life. Old fashioned people with old fashioned ways.
Summary of Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl
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.Family & Childhood Books
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