Great Depression | Great Depression
Jul.28.2010
What I remember was the heat rising from the old bricks, the saltwater air, the wobbly wheels of the tricycle and the utter delight of trolling behind my sister Mimi on her larger tricycle. Joy. Abandon. Warmth and wellbeing. Dimly, the surrounding walls of the U-shaped apartment building which had...
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May.09.2010
In the 1920s, business boomed in every sector of the economy except farming. Numerous soldiers, after having seen “Paree,” refused to return to the Spartan life. Technology made old-fashioned farming methods obsolete. Wild business speculation occurred, and stocks sold wildly on Wall...
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Apr.10.2010
It was a fellow writer's message to me that sent me into research mode this morning on Google and other search engines to find someone else who has been offered a similar deal. I haven't found it yet after two solid hours of searching. Queries are winging out across the cyber-void and the clock...
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Jan.16.2010
It’s 1932, Colorado, height of the Great Depression and widowed Trinidad Bates finds her younger brother Parnell accused of murder. As if the situation couldn’t get any worse, she’s used her inherent gift for dowsing to lead local authorities - namely the malevolent Sheriff Mallis - to the...
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Aug.11.2009
Memoirs of the kind Sylvia has written aren’t the stuff of great literature, nor are they meant to be. But such memoirs do serve a pair of significant and valuable literary purposes:
• If a historian were to write a piece on, for instance, sharecropping in the U.S.’s southeast, he or she would...
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Mar.08.2009
I realize that people don't turn to me for public policy analysis. But yesterday, while getting my taxes done, it came to my attention that my very intelligent and well-informed accountant didn't know an important piece of history regarding our economic situation. So I thought I'd use a normally...
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Feb.28.2009
What a story for a writer!
And yet, to my knowledge, it's not yet the subject of a novel, a major movie drama, or a play*. And it's been more than half a century since the curtain closed on the life in question! I'm talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose life is the subject of a 4-part,...
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Jan.30.2009
"Experience is the one thing you can't get for nothing," Oscar Wilde once said.
I think of my father born January 31, 1918 between wars, and in the midst of an epic flu pandemic,a man who worked hard all his life, who witnessed the Great Depression, and survived it. I think of his...
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