The_Depression_Interview

The Depression Interview The Great Depression was a sad time for everyone in the United States. This is the story of just one woman, Wanda Miles. She was my grandmother, and was only five years old during the Depression. Though she still has very graphic memories of what happened. Wanda lived in Murray, Kentucky in a family of five. Everyone in her family was a farmer, so they didn’t have many problems with finding or losing their jobs. The children helped the family by doing chores around the house and on the farm. In her time, not many children went to school because there weren’t many jobs available for people with high school or college diplomas. There was not a regular rate of pay for farmers. Their income was based on the quality and quantity of that year’s crop. They thankfully also weren’t affected by bank failures because Wanda’s family didn’t trust the bank, and they never had enough money to use it in the first place. The main entertainment of that time was Sunday morning church, and the teens would get involved in church activities. “Sunday mornings, we all had to get wanda, time, food, church, one, family, families, because, always, things, remembers, people, never, house, farm, depression, children, make, jobs, great, go, clean, around, work, wasn’t, wanda’s, very, two, together, times, through, though, sunday, school, money