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Voice from the Great Depression

Awhile ago, I lamented that there were not more people alive who had lived through the Great Depression, in which economic conditions in the United States, and much of the world, were much WORSE than they are today.

Today I learned of an author, Millie Kalish, who was born in 1922 (the year that my father was born), and who lives with her husband in a retirement community in Cupertino, CA. Millie is a retired Professor Emeritus of English from Suffolk County Community College on Long Island and taught at three other colleges. More about Millie’s life is here.

Millie wrote the award-winning book “Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.”

Millie no doubt learned many lessons about common sense, survival, and self-reliance at an early age. Her book may have lessons for us all.

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