Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane," Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper. Scrapbook also includes awards presented to Birkby by Iowa Press Women, Inc....
Of herself, Betsy writes, 'After receiving a B.A. degree in English at Middlebury College in VT (and teaching English for three years at a private school in Massachusetts where, I kid you not, Uma Thurman was one of my students), I moved to Iowa...