Make it last.Save for a rainy day.Do you need it? Can you afford it? Can you do without it?Don't throw it out. We might need it someday.These are truisms handed down from members of the Greatest Generation - the ones who invented and built refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, rocket ships, calculators, and solar energy. They were into recycling and repurposing before those things even had a name.How did they become the people they were? What events shaped the way they thought and acted?Here are stories about growing up during ...
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Make it last.Save for a rainy day.Do you need it? Can you afford it? Can you do without it?Don't throw it out. We might need it someday.These are truisms handed down from members of the Greatest Generation - the ones who invented and built refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, rocket ships, calculators, and solar energy. They were into recycling and repurposing before those things even had a name.How did they become the people they were? What events shaped the way they thought and acted?Here are stories about growing up during the Great Depression and the Second World War as told by those who remember.Collected in this book are the experiences of a European immigrant girl, a Dust Bowl Okie, farm children and the ones who saw locusts (and other insects) swarm over the land. They were tough times, and the people who came of age in those years are remarkable people.Come hear their stories and find out what it was like when life was "Uphill and Against the Wind Both Ways".
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