| Description |
1 online resource (124 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Series |
A bur oak book
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Bur oak book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124). |
| Contents |
A Family Portrait Reframed / Chris D. Baker -- The Log Cabin -- Family Life -- Getting By -- Life on the Farm -- Moonshine -- Hunting -- The Neighbors -- Country School -- Social Life. |
| Summary |
In 1977, while studying journalism at the University of Iowa, Chris Baker gave his grandmother a notebook and asked her to write about her childhood. Years later, long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages, the woman he knew as Grandma Covert had recorded her younger life in rural Iowa between 1920 and 1929. Writing about herself from the ages of four to thirteen, Vetra Covert sent a simple message back to her grandson: "That's just the way it was. Others had it worse. We got by." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Covert, Vetra Melrose Padget, 1916-1990 -- Childhood and youth.
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Covert, Vetra Melrose Padget, 1916-1990 |
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Davis County (Iowa) -- Rural conditions -- 20th century.
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Davis County (Iowa) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
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Davis County (Iowa) -- Biography.
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Rural families -- Iowa -- Davis County.
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Prohibition -- Iowa -- Davis County.
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Fathers and daughters -- Iowa -- Davis County -- Biography.
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Children of alcoholics -- Iowa -- Davis County -- Biography.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) |
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Childhood and youth of a person |
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Children of alcoholics |
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Economic history |
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Fathers and daughters |
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Prohibition |
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Rural conditions |
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Rural families |
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Iowa -- Davis County https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxrVrWfvbBtwq4HDTkkXd |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Added Author |
Baker, Chris D., 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Covert, Vetra Melrose Padget, 1916-1990. Others had it worse. 9781609381820 1609381823 (DLC) 2013007169 |
| ISBN |
1609382072 (electronic bk.) |
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9781609382070 (electronic bk.) |
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9781609381820 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1609381823 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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