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Fresh from receiving a doctorate from Cornell College or university in 1933, but struggling to find work, Charles M. Wiltse became a member of his parents on the tiny farm they had recently purchased in southern Ohio. There, the Wiltses scratched out a living providing eggs, corn, and other farm goods at prices which were scarcely enough to keep the farm intact. In wry and often impacting on prose, Wiltse saved per year in the life span of the quintessentially American place through the Great Despair. He describes the family's day to day routine, occasional light moments, and their ongoing frustrations, small and large - from a neighbor's hog that continually broke in to the cornfields to the ongoing struggle with their money. Franklin Roosevelt's New Offer had little to provide small farmers, and despite repeated requests, the family could not secure loans from local banking companies to help them through the hard economical times. Wiltse spoke the bitter real truth when he told his diary, "We aren't a blessed family." In this particular he represented millions of others trapped in the maw of your national devastation. The diary is presented and edited by Michael J. Birkner, Wiltse's former colleague at the Paperwork of Daniel Webster Job at Dartmouth University, and coeditor, with Wiltse, of the final volume of Webster's correspondence. The reserve is posted by Ohio College or university Press.
