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A true report of growing through to a plantation in Ohio in the 1930s. The writer was one of 10 children in this family. Excerpt: "On Sunday night we always visited Hicksville. The avenues were packed filled with people who came up to look, visit friends, or go directly to the Huber Theater to see a movie. It was hard to obtain a car parking place if you didn't go early on. "Dad gave each kid a quarter. We got in-line at the movie theater to see Roy Rogers or Gene Autry, the singing cowboy, in the films. It cost a dime to get in and a nickel for a package of popcorn. "Following the show was over, we would walk around the avenues many times to see who was there. Then we would buy a double-dip glaciers cream cone and still have a nickel still left to buy candy. "During the war years, when we visited Hicksville, almost all of the teenagers were in uniform. The avenues were filled with sailors, soldiers, and airmen. It was a very intimate time. "I recall hearing Leader Franklin Roosevelt give his famous speech when he declared battle on Japan, once they bombed Pearl Harbor. I had been a decade old. We were all in the living room, hearing our radio. I can still listen to his voice. "Following the war started, the government rationed gas, glucose, espresso, shoes, and meat. They issued literature with stamps in them for every item that was rationed. Each adult and child got a book. You had to have a stamp, or they wouldn't permit you to buy the item." The booklet includes many vintage images of the writer and her family as they were growing up through the Great Unhappiness and World Warfare II era.
