Part VII: Recovery and Relief

Date Submitted: 01/09/2006

Gradually during the 1930s we improved our Eden Prairie dwelling and once again had at least the bas...

Part VI: Remembering the Great Depression - The Lilac Way

Date Submitted: 07/20/2006

Continued from Part V.

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Lessons Leading to Serenity

Date Submitted: 07/28/2006

In all my life, my activities were done in relationship. Parents, spouse, teachers, pastors, siblin...

Work During the Depression

Date Submitted: 02/27/2007

When the Depression hit, my dad lost his job, and they didn't want to lose the house, so they rented...

Part II: Marietta Neumann: Farm Chores and Earning a Living in the 1930s

Date Submitted: 11/08/2007

Editor’s Note: On November 29, 2006, Linda Cameron and Rose Sherman conducted an interview with M...

A "Depression Baby"

Date Submitted: 02/12/2007

My mother called me "a depression baby." Not a derogatory remark - I was born in 1929, when the econ...

Part II: Fort Snelling Station Hospital

Date Submitted: 03/20/2008

Continued from Part I.

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My Memories Through The 30s, 40s and 50s

Date Submitted: 03/08/2007

I was born at Cannon Falls Minnesota in my childhood home on a cold November day so I was told.The f...

Part IV: The Great Depression in Swede Hollow, by Michael T. Sanchelli

Date Submitted: 08/21/2007

It was still early 1935 when we started hearing about the new program, W.P.A., Works Progress Admini...

The Depression and the Move Towards War

Date Submitted: 02/01/2006

Editor's Note: Walter Halloran (born 1923) in Chatfield, MN viewed the Great Depression through...