Been there done that.
The Prisoners song
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=52394
Brother can you spare a dime
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/brother.html
Life is just a bowl of cherries
http://www.mondaypapers.com/cover_songs/bowlofcherries.html
Rudy Valee most popular singer ( the Yale song and I'm just a
vagabond lover)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0884964/bio
Several years ago a neighbor entered into my house via the back door
through the utility room.
Her comment was "Ah ha you must have been a "Depression baby". my
mother told me about it."
I asked why she said that.
She pointed to the wall of shelves holding canned and package foods.
She was correct.
Embedded is the need to always be prepared. Food, Shelter, Finances.
FDR and the Federal Reserve enacted laws and rules to obviate a
reprise of the national calamity.
As memories faded powerful interests have diluted and ignored those
regulations and we have
this unhappy stock market/bank failure/mortgage collapse situation.
How does it relate to genealogy? Families are broken up--Children
scattered--Divorces--
suicides--fathers and husbands disappear.
pjd
7/21/08
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