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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.
I, too, have some old family journals (my great-grandmother from Hubbard, Iowa) and was also curious to see how the Depression affected her family. There were similar themes at the beginning ...
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 ...
Zeigler Bros., a Gardners-based company that dates to the Great Depression, recently celebrated 90 years and three ...
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 ...