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Encore: Rural Iowa Women of the 1920s

Courtesy of Leon Wilkinson
Vetra, left, and sister Reva Padget, appear ready for a trip to town, circa 1930.

Before the Great Depression there was the farm recession, and times were tough for farm families in Iowa. 

This hour, we focus on the lives of rural Iowa women in the early twentieth century.

Host Charity Nebbe talks with author Chris Baker about his grandmother, growing up in rural Davis County in the 1920s. Baker recently published a book including journal entries detailing her life. And, historians Dorothy Schwieder and Katherine Jellison help us understand the times.

 

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Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa