Always Put in a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowa's Best-Known Homemaker

by Evelyn Birkby

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609381157
• ISBN13: 9781609381158
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"