> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> > [Great Depression Anecdote: One day in 1939 my uncle went to market with
> > 300 crates of strawberries. About 4 hours later he came home with 300
> crates
> > of strawberries, which they dumped to the hogs: The highest bid had been
> 15
> > cents a crate, and the packaging cost 22 cents. Pickers got paid 32 cents
> a
> > crate. We had lots of shortcake.]
>
> That sounds like a really weird version of Hell.
Sadly, during the Depression, it was a very common version of Hell... except, of course, for the kids who got shortcake a lot. ;-) I wonder if similar things happened in Hell, MI, about 70 miles east of Benton Harbor?