We all know the story: orphan Dorothy Gale lives with her Auntie Em and Uncle Henry on their farm in Kansas, and her life is briefly interrupted when a tornado comes through. Well, that’s Dorothy’s version of the story, according to Frank L Baum. But what would it look like from another perspective? That is Read More
Tag: Great Depression
The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945, by Harvey Green
The author describes the changes in the United States that would have affected what life would have been like for our ancestors between 1915 and 1945. This book is part of a series – “The Everyday Life in America Series”, which consists of six books, by as many authors, which start in “Early America” and Read More
A Square Meal, by Jane Ziegelman & Andrew Coe
The subtitle of this book is “A Culinary History of the Great Depression”, which is what tempted me to read it. I was assuming that there would be recipes. Well, you know what they say about the word “assume”. There are a several recipes from that era, very few of which I would want to Read More