For over 50 years Birkby has written a weekly column for her hometown paper containing recipes, stories of friends and family, and her personal philosophy of life. This volume contains the best of these recipes and stories from the 1940s and 1950s.
For over 50 years Birkby has written a weekly column for her hometown paper containing recipes, stories of friends and family, and her personal philos...
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 life in the Midwest over decades of change. Now she has sifted through thousands of columns to give us her favorites, guaranteed to delight her many longtime...
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 ...