09.25.08
Depression
Depression
In economics: a period marked by slackening of business activity, much unemployment, falling prices and wages
The word strikes fear in our hearts because my generation grew up with stories about the depression. My father was lucky enough to get work with the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked in California when he was single. That got him through the worst of it, I guess, and he came back to Ohio to work. My aunt told of heating food on the furnace because her family couldn’t really afford to run the stove. Their families didn’t have money to begin with, so they didn’t lose money at the time of the stock market crash. But they still suffered as a result of the crash. My mom told of having holes in her stockings and quitting school because of remarks made to her about it. When you can’t buy a simple pair of stockings to cover your legs, things are bad. It was sad because she was a bright, intelligent person and would have benefited by that education. It would be tragic to see another depression.
The Emblem came from the inside of a little old trunk we found at a garage sale.
Here is a pdf from the National Archives that tells about the CCC. The information is on page 3.
