A Farm Girl in the Great DepressionAuthor: Ruth Myer ISBN: 978-0-9666196-0-7 Publisher: Busca, Inc. Price: $14.95 Buy online and save 10% $13.45 |
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Following the stock market crash in 1929, the United States found itself in the throes
of the Great Depression. While many people found jobs with newly created social
programs such as the WPA and CCC, most farmers chose to stay home and work
their farms. They were challenged by flood and drought disasters, but few gave up.
Instead, the Depression brought out their thriftiness, faith, and ingenuity. Ruth Myer remembers happy times during the Depression. As she states, "My childhood was happy and free from worry, as my life revolved around my mother and father, our pets and farm animals. We had enough food to eat, clothes to wear and a feast of books were available at the local library." Readers young and old will enjoy experiencing the Great Depression as seen through the eyes of a young girl growing up during that time. Ruth Myer was not only raised on a farm, but married a farmer as well. She and her husband, LeConte, considered a farm the ideal atmosphere to raise their eight children. Although the children have all grown and left home and LeConte has retired, they still continue to enjoy the rural life and their twenty grandchildren. Ruth works in her flower beds and LeConte plants and harvests a large vegetable garden each year. |
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