“Nobody ever died from hard work.” Our father said it many times. The folks had grown up during the Great Depression. 750,000 farms were lost in our country to foreclosure or bankruptcy between 1930 and 1935. A bushel of corn sold for as little as eight cents. The economy had recovered, and rains renewed the prairies by the time Mom and Dad started out in the late thirties. Hard work and pe...
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