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Hastings experienced the rural and small town side of an event that touched all who weathered itthe economic crash of 1929 and its 10-year aftermath. The author grew up in Marion, Illinois, entering the first grade in 1930, the start of the Great Depression. This book, which recalls memorable episodes in the life of that boy, is a sequel to the popular A Nickels Worth of Skim Milk. What Hastings experienced as a child was typical of depression-era life. Those who were young then can relive lost youth in Hastings books. And there were moments worth reliving: Hastings tells of laughter and love and tears in the midst of hunger and cold and deprivation. Those too young to have experienced the economic devastation can see those hard days through the eyes of a trained storyteller reporting from the point of view of a child.
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A Penny's Worth of Minced Ham : Another Look At the Great Depression Shawnee Books
author
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Hastings, Robert J.
publisher
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Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0809313049
print isbn13
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9780809313044
ebook isbn13
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9780585187037
language
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English
subject
Hastings, Robert J.--Childhood and youth, Marion (Ill.)--Biography, Depressions--1929--United States--Personal narratives, United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945.
publication date
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1986
lcc
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F549.M34H374 1986eb
ddc
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977.3/993
subject
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Hastings, Robert J.--Childhood and youth, Marion (Ill.)--Biography, Depressions--1929--United States--Personal narratives, United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945.
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Shawnee Books
Also in this series
The Next New Madrid Earthquake: A Survival Guide for the Midwest William Atkinson
Foothold on a Hillside: Memories of a Southern Illinoisan Charless Caraway
A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk Robert J. Hastings
Fishing Southern Illinois Art Reid
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A Penny's Worth of Minced Ham
Another Look at the Great Depression
Robert J. Hastings
Southern Illinois University Press CARBONDALE AND EDWARDSVILLE
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Copyright 1986 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Edited by Margaret Sattler Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hastings, Robert J. A penny's worth of minced ham.
(Shawnee books) 1. Hastings, Robert J.Childhood and youth. 2. Marion (Ill.)Biography 3. Depressions1929 United StatesPersonal narratives. 4. United States Social life and customs19181945. I. Title. II. Series. F549.M34H374 1986 977.3'993 [B] 85-31731 ISBN 0-8093-1303-0 ISBN 0-8093-1304-9 (pbk.) 97 96 95 94 8 7 6 5
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To my wife, Bessie Emling Hastings, with whom I cele brated our fortieth anniversary the year I wrote this book
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You bet I remember those neighborhood stores where you'd buy a "poke of sugar" or "a poke of coffee." Some mornings, on my way to catch my ride to the mines, if we'd slept late, I'd stop in a little store for a pastry, or maybe something for my dinner bucket... and then the Depression closed the mines and there was no bucket to buy food for. I walked my legs off looking for work all over Williamson and Franklin counties. It got to where a mine manager would see me coming and start shaking his head. I knew, and he knew, what he meant. Landon Henderson, retired coal miner, Marion, Illinois
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Contents
Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
A Trip to Swan's Store
1
To Lon Norman's for Ice
9
The Short Way to Kroger's
18
The Long Way to Kroger's
24
A Sack of Bread at Bertha's
29
An Unbroken Thread
41
Two Loaves of Twin Bread
46
A Trip to West Frankfort
54
Brilliantine, Coal Buckets, and Tootsie Rolls
67
The Street Merchant Go-Getters
76
What! Shop with a Baby Buggy?
80
Relish the Moment
86
Good Night, Sweet Prince
91
Epilogue
97
Appendix: Grocery Stores in Marion, Illinois, 1939
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