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While the Great Depression was a catastrophe beyond anyone's personal control, people made what, in hindsight, we see were ...
Dean Abbott has lived through 19 presidents, two world wars and more than a century of change — and on her 105th birthday, ...
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis ... The Depression also had a negative impact on family life as many couples delayed their marriages or postponed having children.
a Black family who lived there during the Great Depression. Geraldine “Jeri” Cousins Palmer left behind an extensive oral history of her time in the home, which has helped Strawbery Banke ...
Turkey farming helped countless families weather the Great Depression—and it was often ... Before commercial farming overtook the family enterprise by the mid-century, says Idaho historian ...
I loved hearing her stories and getting to know her and my family history ... a byproduct of growing up in a city during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the resulting patchy childhood ...