Product Description: Rural Free, first published in 1961, beautifully conveys the joys of family life on an Indiana farm. Marked by the slow pace and rich variety of seasonal change, Rachel Peden’s narrative offers an authentic month-by-month chronicle of her family’s daily adventures...read more

Illustrated with original illustrations and family photographs, a nostalgic memoir of growing up on a farm in southern Indiana in the fifties includes country recipes, reflections on rural life, and poems by the author's grandmother. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Tales of the Yesteryears is a compilation of the author's weekly newspaper columns. Each story recalls a true incident as the author remembers it from the early days of the 1920s and '30s. It is a vivid trip down memory lane, filled with humor, pathos, drama, and interesting anecdotes...read more

The author's memories of his Indiana boyhood during the Great Depression.

Product Description: A farmwife for 45 years, Rachel Peden believed that the family farm's best crop is a "harvest of the spirit." In Speak to the Earth, she looks at life―domestic and wild, human and critter―through the eyes of someone who witnesses nine seasons of the year rather than the typical four...read more