Growing Up Country Quotes

“This land of my childhood releases sweet, long forgotten memories and brings me back home. Home to the farm. Home to my family. Home.  ”
― Carol Bodensteiner, Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl

“Settling the record on the turntable, I wound the crank on the side of the console”
― Carol Bodensteiner, Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl

“toenails clicking,”
― Carol Bodensteiner, Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl

“homemade bread”
― Carol Bodensteiner, Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl

“Blarney Stones—chocolate cake cut into squares, dipped in powdered sugar frosting, rolled in crushed peanuts and then frozen. Stella was known for her fancy cookies–crispy, spritz butter cookies or thumb print cookies topped with jam”
― Carol Bodensteiner, Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl

“Every year during the fair, we scouted out the commercial vendor exhibits, snatching up all the free stuff—pencils and key chains and yardsticks—until we had a treasure bag of valuable booty. At one end of the vendor building was one of the magical wonders of the fair—a giant faucet that floated in the air, unconnected to any pipe or wire, yet pouring a heavy stream of water into a barrel below. Even after I was old enough to understand how it worked, I stood transfixed at the Culligan exhibit each year, straining to see the plastic tube. I never could.”
― Carol Bodensteiner, Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl