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A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk : A Boy's View of the Great Depression
A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk A Boy's View of the Great Depression Author:Robert J. Hastings Here are nostalgic memories of life in a small town in Illinois during the Depression years as experienced by a small boy whose father was a miner until he lost his job. The times were hard and money was scarce, but families and neighbors shared hardships and simple pleasures, church, and school, fishing, the county fair, the WPA, the lettuce pa... more »tch, "visiting," birth and death, kites and mumbly-peg.« less