Category: Early Days to 1955

  • GLASS MILK BOTTLES

      GLASS MILK BOTTLES. My parents never gave any negative thought to using child labor.  If you were old enough to help, you helped.  Life on a dairy farm meant never ending work every day of the week for everyone. Cows were milked twice a day.  The milk was strained, cooled and put into 5…

  • The Fall Hatch

    A baby was probably the last thing my parents needed during the Great Depression, but I surprised them. They already had an 18- year old daughter and a 13- year old son. All four of them took my arrival in stride. My father explained that their close friends had no children my age because they…