But when you’re moving from town to town, you don’t stay there long enough for trouble to catch up with you.
It was a very nice time, because when you’re poor and you stay in one spot, trouble just seems to catch up with you. My husband and me just started travelling around, for about three years. We’d say: “Dip down, goddammit.” …Įven after the soup line, there wasn’t anything. So we’d ask him to please dip down to get some meat and potatoes from the bottom of the kettle. So we’d ask the guy that was ladling out the soup into the buckets-everybody had to bring their own bucket to get the soup-he’d dip the greasy, watery stuff off the top. If you happened to be one of the first ones in line, you didn’t get anything but water that was on top. I first noticed the difference when we’d come home from school in the evening. Peggy Terry, a child in Oklahoma when the Depression started, now lives in a poor district of Chicago. “In their rememberings are their truths.” AMERICAN HERITAGE presents a selection of these American voices-remembering. “The precise date is of small consequence,” the author writes in his introduction. He simply lets his subjects-sometimes famous men, more often ordinary citizens-speak.
Terkel adds little commentary to the emotions and experiences that his sensitive interviewing elicited. In Hard Times, which will be published later this month by Pantheon Books, Mr. Some of their children also express vicarious feelings about those years-years that, in one sense or another, scarred their parents’ lives, and created attitudes that the children have come to admire or, just as often, to resent. He has recorded the memories of hundreds of Americans who lived through the grim decade of the 1930’s. In his new book, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Mr. Published in 1967, this study of the lives and feelings of a cross section of Chicagoans quickly became a best seller. Terkel, who has a daily radio show on WFMT in Chicago, is the author of Division Street: America.
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