Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Jeanette Miller is a retired mental health counselor who holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has traveled extensively in Europe and southeast Asia and is currently working on a memoir about growing up in Kalona, Iowa. The...