This should be compulsory reading for those who have supported the dismantling of the welfare state. ... the despair of the interwar years are where we are headed
I wish these stories were better known. I wish everyone had to look at the photos taken by the Farm Security Administration (US). One set of my great grandparents were part of my childhood. Their survival of the great depression and two world wars, left an impact on even me. Grandma Arlene used a small pocket knife at Christmas to carefully cut the tape on gifts so she could save the wrapping paper. There was so much of it in the house after she passed, we used it for 8 years! She and Merle played fiddles, herded sheep in the rugged Idaho mountains, and sadly lost a son at one month old, Dale, who was forever remembered. It was such a hard time to be alive.
This should be compulsory reading for those who have supported the dismantling of the welfare state. ... the despair of the interwar years are where we are headed
I wish these stories were better known. I wish everyone had to look at the photos taken by the Farm Security Administration (US). One set of my great grandparents were part of my childhood. Their survival of the great depression and two world wars, left an impact on even me. Grandma Arlene used a small pocket knife at Christmas to carefully cut the tape on gifts so she could save the wrapping paper. There was so much of it in the house after she passed, we used it for 8 years! She and Merle played fiddles, herded sheep in the rugged Idaho mountains, and sadly lost a son at one month old, Dale, who was forever remembered. It was such a hard time to be alive.