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Come Back and See Us

Come Back and See Us A Childhood in Depression-Era Virginia

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Publisher's Synopsis

Glen Whitacre was born to tenant farmers at the start of The Great Depression. His father was an orchard foreman who was hired throughout Frederick County, Virginia and Berkeley County, West Virginia. With each new job, the family received a tenant house, a garden plot, and a dollar a day. Electricity and indoor plumbing optional. Whitacre records his childhood year by year. Local historians and genealogists will find detailed descriptions of Depression-era tenant farming, orchards, schools, farm machinery, and household equipment. He gives a window into life dependent upon communal efforts for survival, such as community canning, butchering, and bartering. Whitacre's fascination with early cameras, radios and recording equipment chronicles an age of booming technological advancements and a way of life fading from our cultural memory.Surnames: (Primarily)Whitacre, DeHaven, Haines (Also) Clark, Crumb, Flowers, Funk Guthrie, Harper, Hutton, Jameison, Jimps, Johnson (of Richmond), Joliffe, Kersey Luttrell, Munoz Noya, Sheetz, Ussery, Woodfin

Book information

ISBN: 9781793131560
Publisher: Independently Published
Imprint: Independently Published
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 292
Weight: 395g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 15mm