My Flint Hills Childhood: Growing Up in 1930s Kansas by Gail Lee Martin - 2009
by Gail Lee Martin
My Flint Hills Childhood: Growing Up in 1930s Kansas
by Gail Lee Martin
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ABOUT THE BOOK: A childhood on the Kansas prairies in the 1930s springs vividly to life in the detailed memories of Gail Martin. Her simple accounts of long ago school days, celebrations and family life are a treasure. Travel back in time to life in the Flint Hills during the Great Depression, and the time leading up to World War II. The memories include her father's work in the oil field, trips to town in the family's Model A, raising a pet badger, fishing on the Cottonwood River and wearing dresses made from feed sack material. The book also explores her family's role in early Kansas history with details of covered wagons, homesteading, the Civil War and fledgling industries. Follow the Tower, Vining and McGhee family from Tyro to Teterville to Eureka.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gail Lee Martin (1924-2013) was Kansas Authors Club State Archivist from 1995-2005. She joined Kansas Authors Club in 1992 and was a member of District 5. Martin enjoyed writing fiction, nonfiction, stories for children, journalism, history, and poetry. Her work was published in numerous magazines. She also published two books: CLYDE OWEN MARTIN, FAMILY MEMORIES OF HIS LIFE AND TIMES and MY FLINT HILLS CHILDHOOD, GROWING UP IN 1930S KANSAS, which won the Ferguson Kansas History Book Award in 2010. The Martin Kansas History Book Award was created in 2018 as a tribute to her.
BOOK DESIGN AND EDITING: VIRGINIA ALLAIN, http://vallain.wordpress.com/.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Illustrator B/W Period Photos
- Format/Binding Trade Paperback
- Book Condition New New
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition 1st Thus
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Blurb
- Place of Publication Kansas
- Date Published 2009
- Pages 197
- Size 8 x 5 x 0.50 inches
- Keywords Gail Lee Martin, Tower, Vining, McGhee, Teterville, Tyro, Eureka, Kansas, Great Depression, Flint Hills, Oil Fields, Kansas History, Kansas Authors Club
- Size 8 x 5 x 0.50 inches