Teaching in Canadian prairie towns and villages, reminds me of Laura Ingles Wilder and LM Montgomery but for an adult audience. There is one reference to licorice that singed my eyebrows with the racial inappropriateness (written in 1977, translated in 1979, did they really still call them n**rtoes???) also cleanliness seemed to be a fairly direct correlation with the goodness of various poor families. I can't really imagine being responsible for a whole schoolhouse of children at 18, but there you go.
