Others Had It Worse - Sour Dock, Moonshine, and Hard Times in Davis County, Iowa

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Chris D Baker, Chris D. Baker, Vetra Melrose Padget Covert, Vetra Melrose Padget/ Baker Covert
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2013
• EAN: 9781609381820
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-182-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Bur Oak Book; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies