![]() ![]() Ingram mines that humor to good effect, and his audience chuckled and chortled at the misadventures Kalish relates. Kalish isn’t a flashy stylist, but she’s consistently funny. Ingram is an engaged and engaging reader, and his audience members were plainly right there with him-or perhaps more accurately, right there with Kalish, remembering their own childhoods.ĭuring my visit, Ingram read passages focusing on the rituals of schooldays, the social hierarchy of children, and the customs of box socials. I joined a group of 12 women and two men in the parlor on an early August evening to listen to Ingram read from Kalish’s memoir of her childhood. At Legacy Pointe, he’s been connecting a group of about 14 residents with Mildred Armstrong Kalish’s Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() His enthusiasm and knowledge have connected many a book and a reader over the years. Booklovers in Iowa City and beyond know Ingram as one of the central personalities at Prairie Lights Books. © Gregory KalishĪ parlor is a place for special visitors, and on Wednesdays this summer, the parlor at Legacy Pointe-part of the Silvercrest Legacy Senior Living Community in Iowa City-has had a special visitor in the person of Paul Ingram. ![]() The Depression was hard on everyone, but for Mildred Kalish, Iowa farm life was filled with endearing family, wild romps, and remarkable adventures. ![]()
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