Memories of a Depression Baby … Just Kidding Around
The Only Thing That Disappears Faster than a Summer Vacation Is Childhood
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In describing my grandmother’s house, I described the location of the various dried beans she had for sale, which was on top of the refrigerated meat case. Each type of bean was in a different approximately 12 x 12 inch open-top box. When no customers or family were around and my grandmother was busy elsewhere in the house or yard, I would climb on a chair and then on top of the meat counter and proceed to “integrate” those beans. This only happened a couple of times and afterward I was made to sit down in my grandmother’s kitchen with those bean boxes in front of me and instructed in her sternest voice to re-sort the beans into their proper boxes. Needless to say, it took much longer to “segregate” those beans than it did to mix them together. This was punishment enough for a little four year old who really wanted to run barefoot all over the neighborhood instead of sorting beans!
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About the Book
Memories of a Depression Baby paints a vivid description of surviving as a kid growing up during the Great Depression. Times were hard, but kids always found a way to amuse themselves in spite of the hard reality of the times. There was very little money to spend on entertainment, so we devised our own methods of amusement. “There were no televisions, cell phones, video games, iPods, etc. Heck, we didn’t even have electric typewriters, but we thought we had it all. We just didn’t know any differently. Eventually, this generation put us on the moon and helped to invent many of the electronic wonders of today.”
About the Author
Sonja G. Farr lived every moment of the events described in the book. Times were hard, but she didn’t seem to know the difference. She was a happy-go-lucky kid in a troubled time during the Great Depression. She managed to survive due to a strong Christian upbringing in a close-knit family unit. She grew up in a large city but now lives in a small town in Texas, close to her daughter and grandchildren. She is a former bank officer and small business owner, and she is now filling her retirement years writing about past personal experiences.