Iowa's Radio Homemakers: Up a Country Lane
- TV Special
- 2010
- 58m
The majority of women in rural Iowa had domestic jobs in the 1950s. Many of those women turned on the radio due to isolation on a farm. Radio homemakers helped women with their domestic duti... Read allThe majority of women in rural Iowa had domestic jobs in the 1950s. Many of those women turned on the radio due to isolation on a farm. Radio homemakers helped women with their domestic duties as "neigbors on the air". The documentary also contains interviews with radio homemaker... Read allThe majority of women in rural Iowa had domestic jobs in the 1950s. Many of those women turned on the radio due to isolation on a farm. Radio homemakers helped women with their domestic duties as "neigbors on the air". The documentary also contains interviews with radio homemaker Evelyn Birkby, historian Chuck Offenburger, and historian Tom Morain.