Bruce L. Foxworthy

Making Do and Hanging On: Growing Up in Apple Country Through the Great Depression Bruce L. Foxworthy

No place in America escaped the impacts of the Great Depression, from 1929 to 1939. Even the quiet, orchard-filled Entiat Valley of the author?s boyhood suffered its cruel effects. Making Do and Hanging On?Growing Up in Apple Country Through the Great Depression, presents the author?s recollections during those mean years?memories of local conditions and events, and of his family?s coping with seemingly endless setbacks in its struggles upward. These memoirs, sometimes stark, sometimes poignant, sometimes touched with humor, call up thought-provoking parallels to modern events.