Comments on: Hard Times Come Again- Voices of Those who Have Been There Before

By: Robo Defense

Robo Defense — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:23:49 +0000

I agree with your The Chatelaine's Keys » Blog Archive » Hard Times Come Again- Voices of Those who Have Been There Before, good post.

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Love Thy Neighbor » GroovyGreen.com - Start Today :: Save Tomorrow — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:33:12 +0000

[...] her blog post today Sharon talks about the voices of people who have lived through hard times, and the one thing that made [...]

By: Wrencher

Wrencher — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:25:56 +0000

This is the first time I have been on your site. Wow- lots of information and insight. My parents were Great Depression babies and sort of carried the whole experience through out their lives. My dad’s family once lived for a month on corn meal. They had corn mush, corn bread, and I don’t know what else. People can’t even conceive of the idea that this could happen again.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:07:43 +0000

One thing that bothers me as we are going into this is that in the first great depression, more people owned their homes outright or were able to hang onto them. I’m afraid this one will see a lot more homeless people, and that’s a recipe for disaster.

By: Kati

Kati — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:03:22 +0000

THANK YOU for this list!!! I finished reading “Women of Valor” about a month ago, and am currently working my way through “The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America” by T.H. Watkins. (Only 1/3 through, though, so no reviews to share as yet, though the discussion of the Unemployed Cooperatives struck me as useful information, if not 100% effective in practice, according to the book.)

I will certainly be looking for that “Making Do: How Women Survived the 30′s” now that I know the title. (That’s been the hardest part, finding accurate titles in order to facilitate the book’s finding in my library’s collection.)

May I also suggest some reading of books relating to life in the Soviet Union?!?! One book I’ve picked up ($.50 from the used-book-sale at my library) is “Fifty Russian Winters: An American Woman’s Life in the Soviet Union” by Margaret Wettlin. I haven’t read this one yet, so I can’t say how it is, but it would seem that some of the ordeals these women & men have dealt with could be related to our own coming hard-times. (And, specifically, growing food on Dacha property to supliment the meager government-supplied diet.)

By: meg

meg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:30:29 +0000

Just this morning after watching Democracy Now! and some news stories on The Real News I was asking myself if things can get much worse. I know they can. I’ve heard the stories. To this day my great-grandmother will throw nothing away–tin foil, plastic wrap, sour cream containers. I myself am trying to prepare for a leaner future by learning the subtle art of gardening (and praying my seeds will come up), joining a local CSA, and working on the small dairy goat farm.

Not to mention the fact that I am turning into my great-grandmother…at the age of 19.

We can do it!

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:21:15 +0000

Sharon, Bernie Sternsher and Judy Sealander were teachers of mine at BGSU, and would be proud of you: your use of wisdom against the coming dark is what history is for.

Enjoy your Purim!

By: Heather Gray

Heather Gray — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:41:38 +0000

Great post, and am checking out the links.

Was going to relate some things from my parents’ Depression experiences, but it was getting too long. I’ll post it over at my blog and save you the space!

By: Birdwell

Birdwell — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:27:40 +0000

It’s a common misunderstanding that if you get food stamps, the program takes your home. Not true!
Your neighbors might want to look at getting food stamps to help them through this very difficult period. It is indeed hard for proud and hardworking families to accept the help, but that is what the help is there for. They should look at it as a way to continue to be productive members of the community and when they can will be able to “pay it forward” and help others when they can.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/applicant_recipients/eligibility.htm

By: WNC Observer

WNC Observer — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:27:25 +0000

The thing that has always struck me about the Great Depression stories that I have heard is that it seems like everybody was either homeless, on the road, and begging for food – or else they had homeless people who were on the road, showing up at their back door each night, begging for food.