My Remembers A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression
"I grow up a dirt farmer and retired a dirt farmer. Never got rich and didn't want to be. My childhood stomping ground is now concrete, stores and houses. I remember the good times and bad. It was not the money we made but how to stretch that last dime. It was not the wind, rain or snow. I...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Denton, TX :
University of North Texas Press
1999
1996. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Materias: | |
| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439830006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Letter to my grands and your grands and there grands
- My Growing Up Days
- Changes on the Farm
- Famley Problum
- A Vision of What Was
- Famley Life
- Getting a Wife
- Come on Kids, Lets Eat!
- Keep Clean
- Sud Busting Day
- Recration or Play Time
- Medicines
- School Day
- After School Trouble
- Hussling for Survival
- Sending Messages without a Phone
- Domestic Animals
- Hunting Wild Animals
- Dust Storms and Blue Whislers
- Farming
- Fear of Failure
- What Kept Us Going
- Run for Cover
- Jack Rabbit
- Fill Up on the Holy Spirit
- Praise God
- Funral Service
- Troubled Famley Down on the Farm
- Good Time and Bad Time
- A Lonely Mother with the Blues
- Caring for Your Nabor
- Friends
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Millie and Ed Diner
- Just a Thought
- Closing letter to my grands and your grands and there grands
- Appendix A: Family Tree
- Appendix B: Stimpson and Drake Histories
- Index.
