Kirjahaku

Written all through Grandma Lena's cookbook were recipes gleaned from family and friends. These handwritten treasures kept her family in pickles and goodies through the Great Depression and into the 70's. Every handwritten page was scanned and is included in the book. If you like vintage recipes and family secrets, you'll find some gems in this collection that has been passed on from earlier generations. The sections include: IntroductionNot DessertsCakesCookiesOther DessertsPicklesMiscellaneousBonus Recipes for Cooking ExpertsThe recipes range from ginger ale, tomato salad (which involves lemon Jello and tomato juice) to liver sausage and varnish remover. Cakes, cookies, and other goodies are abundant in this collection. Help yourself. There's always plenty at Grandma Lena's house

What would happen if schools closed due to lack of interest? Time passes and technology is forgotten.Marc runs away from the family farm at the age of thirteen determined never to turn into a man like his father. He finds himself a small building with a fireplace in an abandoned city, determined to plan his own destiny. His destiny appears in the form of a small, undernourished boy named Justin. Marc's home is a bookstore. He eventually stops using the books for kindling and teaches himself to read.He and Justin gather a small group of rejected and orphaned children and move into an empty library. Maggie, who has serious problems of her own, helps Marc care for the younger children. Life would have been excellent had the evil Director Crassus not chosen to harass Marc. Their battles become more and more dangerous until Marc learns Crassus's plan to take everything away from the surrounding farmers - including Marc's family.How can a group of abandoned children save themselves and everything they are trying to build from a mean and selfish man?

Make it last.Save for a rainy day.Do you need it? Can you afford it? Can you do without it?Don't throw it out. We might need it someday.These are truisms handed down from members of the Greatest Generation - the ones who invented and built refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, rocket ships, calculators, and solar energy. They were into recycling and repurposing before those things even had a name.How did they become the people they were? What events shaped the way they thought and acted?Here are stories about growing up during the Great Depression and the Second World War as told by those who remember.Collected in this book are the experiences of a European immigrant girl, a Dust Bowl Okie, farm children and the ones who saw locusts (and other insects) swarm over the land. They were tough times, and the people who came of age in those years are remarkable people.Come hear their stories and find out what it was like when life was "Uphill and Against the Wind Both Ways".