Growing Up Strong: Four North Country Women Recall Their Lives

In their deep sense of family and community, in their faith in themselves, these Adirondack women found the strength to endure and grow in a harsh but beautiful environment. Here are the domestic details, the intimate life of mountain women and their families...what it was like to attend and teach in a one-room, schoolhouse...why horses were better than cars...and how to get a whole chicken into a quart jar! ...plus 34 fascinating photographs!