The Depression

I were a little fellow during the depression, in fact, I were borned right in the midst of it, 1932. Now we was lucky because it didn't change the way we lived much at all. We was used to growing our own food and we always had a milk cow or two and a whole bunch of chickens for eggs and Sunday dinner. There was some peoples, most of them lived in town (we never thought living in Harper was living in town) who had a rough time. Especially them what worked for the seat cover factory or in the railroad shops. They didn't have no gardens for the most part and needed money to buy food. And they didn't own the place where they live at so they needed to make payments to the bank or to their landlords. The depression hurt them a right smart. Grandpa tried to help 'em as much as possible and let some of them come by and do odd jobs for food. He never did give nobody nothing for nothing. They had to do some work. I asked him about that one time and he said he warn't doing it for hisself but were doing it for the poor fellows. They needed to know how to work for what they got. I reckon he were right.
Like I said the depression didn't have much of a effect on us. But now you take them millionaires like in New York and such. Why they was jumping out of buildings and doing all kind of foolishness 'cause they lost so much. I reckon that's why I live so humble even though I got all that oil money.