Others Had It Worse
Sour Dock, Moonshine, and Hard Times in Davis County, Iowa
Will be published approx. on 15. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-60938-182-0 (ISBN)
Description
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. Long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages she had recorded her younger life in rural Iowa between 1920 and 1929. Captivated, Chris Baker has reframed his grandmother's journal to create a narrative of her childhood and a window into rural Iowa life in the 1920s.
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Series
Edition
New
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
20 black & white photographs, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
154 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-182-0 (9781609381820)
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Covert Vetra Melrose Padget Covert | Baker Chris D. Baker
Others Had It Worse
Sour Dock, Moonshine, and Hard Times in Davis County, Iowa
E-Book
09/2013
University Of Iowa Press
€21.49
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Persons
Vetra Covert was born in 1916 in rural Davis County, Iowa. Wife, mother, homemaker, and consummate baker, she died in 1990 in Ottumwa, Iowa. Photographer, writer, and musician Chris Baker is the author of In Retrospect: An Illustrated History of Wapello County, Iowa. He works in the fields of mediation and crime victim services.