[or-roots] Depression Times / W.W.II

[CARROLLOUC at aol.com]

I hope those of you that are waxing nostalgic about growing up during the 
Depression and WWII are also busy writing your story of those years. They will be 
lost in another generation if you don't.

My great grandmother was born in VA in 1852 and died in Portland, OR in 1944 
when I was 15. She used to tell us children stories of the Civil War and of 
her life but no one wrote them down and they are now mainly forgotten. I only 
remember one or two. What a loss this is to our family.

Some time ago, my then 12 year old granddaughter wanted to know what my 
favorite TV program was when I was a girl. She was horrified when I told her we had 
no TV, radio or telephone at  that time and she plaintively asked "but 
Grandma, what did you dooooo?". 

I was born in 1929 and grew up in Portland and the suburb, Parkrose, during 
two of the most important decades in the History of the U.S.. I have completed 
my story of what it was like for me, what we children did for entertainment, 
etc. I began with my birth and ended this first story at age 18 when I was 
walking down the aisle to be married.  There is also a good deal of genealogy 
involved in the story.

The second part of my life has mostly been written, up to about 8 years ago. 
Eventually, it will be completed, with one of my children finishing the last 
page for me. Then, hopefully, he or she will make it into a book for my 
descendants as well. 

These stories are not about a great or famous person, but an ordinary 
individual with her own story to tell and it will be a totally different story from 
anyone else's story.  I sincerely hope that  my family will enjoy both books 
and will know their mother, grandmother and great grandmother more fully than 
they do now.

So, everyone, get cracking on those stories for your children and theirs.

Carroll (Cooper) Summers

 
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