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![]() ![]() When you come out of the mines, your feet would be wet of Many time I'd have to git off and hammer his feet out of the stirrups. And I was wondering why it is that one man could have all those cuff links when we couldn't even have enough to eat." Buddy Blankenship, a West Virginian: "We lived eight miles from the mine, and we had to ride I was sitting out there in the hot sun, there weren'tĪny trees. I was setting on an old tire out in front of the yard and we were poor and hungry. Them were rubies and precious stones- these were his cuff links. I read in the paper how many cuff links he had. Peggy Terry, a Southern white living in Chicago: "This may sound impossible, but if there's one thing that started me thinking, it was President Roosevelt's cuff links. Most articulate spokesmen are not the wealthy and the educated but the working people who felt the Depression most personally. Surprise not only at the extent of the experience that most people called "hard times," but the extraordinary depths of the memories Mr. It still is." In a worthy sequel to "Division Street: America," Studs Terkel now offers up the Great Depression in the words of more than 160 Americans, most of them survivors, a few of them young people like Roger Roger, a 14 year-old Appalachian boy, living in Chicago: "See, I never heard that word 'depression' before. ![]()
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