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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Oct 05 2008 : 07:59:10 AM
I read this a few years ago and I think I will read it again.
IT SAYS-
Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recored he arduous work. In 27 years she attended 816 births as well as recording her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.
This is a really good book and you gotta wonder how they got by at all back then.
NANCY JO
I'LL GO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE BOOK AND PUT IN ON MY SITE.
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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| Amie C. |
Posted - Oct 22 2008 : 4:57:06 PM
This is a great book. And there's a documentary based on it too. Check your library for the video! |
| prairie_princess |
Posted - Oct 22 2008 : 3:13:41 PM
ooh, i've been wanting to read this book after my history teacher recommended it. it's on my list at paperbackswap.com (i'm glad there are other country gals who are on there! i love it!)
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
-Guillaume Apollinaire |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Oct 06 2008 : 06:15:29 AM
Sam,
I think you will like it. Amazing that she had time to kepp a diary.
NANCY JO
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| Sandra K. Licher |
Posted - Oct 05 2008 : 09:21:13 AM
Thanks for the book recommendation and also for the paperbackswap website.....never heard of that one. I will check it out! thanks girls! I'm not a midwife but I did not get out of bed this morning...so what does that make me? Don't answer that....
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
Farmgirl Sister #226
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Oct 05 2008 : 08:42:32 AM
Thanks for the recommendation. I just ordered in on Paperbackswap.com!
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