Leora's Dexter stories The scarcity years of the Great Depression
Book - 2021
The undertow of the Great Depression becomes poignantly personal as we experience the travails of Leora and Clabe Wilson, a displaced Iowa farm family. Gritty determination fuels this family's journey of loss and hope, a reflection of what many American families endured during those challenging times. In this true story the Wilsons slowly slide into unemployment and poverty. Leora must find ways to keep her dreams alive while making a haven for her flock of seven children in one run-down house after another. --
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- History
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Legacy Press
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 194 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9781734158724
- Danny's earache
- Mastoidectomy
- Penn Township
- Independence Day at Dexfield Park
- Acreage at the Edge of Dexter
- Clabe's stories
- The cow dries up
- Whooping cough
- Decoration day
- Husky and the pack of dogs
- Paving the great white way
- 1930
- Grandpa's heart attack
- Guilt and consolation
- Clabe's surgery
- The sheepshed
- Yet another move
- First high school graduates
- Delbert to California
- Bonnie and Clyde
- A biplane ride before school
- Delbert and Donald join the navy
- Running the town pump
- Machine perm in Redfield
- Rusty the pet squirrel
- The Panama Canal
- A suspicion before Christmas
- The imbedded needle
- Goffs move to Omaha
- Gossip
- Clabe becomes a hobo
- Spats
- The canning factory
- New Deal jobs
- 'Possum for birthday dinner
- Blizzards
- Basketball tourney
- Pollywogs become shellbacks
- Another Dexter High School diploma
- California visitors
- American Institute of Business
- Discharged from the navy
- California jobs fizzle
- Bounty for starlings
- Dallas County champs
- Minburn and more graduates
- Leora.