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Buggies and Bad Times
Stories of horse-drawn buggies and cars with rumble seats,World Wars, rationing, and the Great Depression.
172 pages, Hardcover
First published October 22, 1992
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June 7, 2017
I'm slowly making my way through this series and recommend it to anyone with an enjoyment of "quiet" history. I really enjoyed the number and variety of interviews in this compilation. Obviously a great amount of hard work went into this project.
The only additional thing I would have enjoyed were the dates the interviews were conducted so I could put together context. However, the ages of the interviewees were given so that was somewhat helpful.
The only additional thing I would have enjoyed were the dates the interviews were conducted so I could put together context. However, the ages of the interviewees were given so that was somewhat helpful.
July 5, 2016
"When you go from buggies to space travel, I'd say you've covered a good many miles."
So says one of them women interviewed in this book, which is a collection of oral histories of Hoosier women who grew up from the late-1800s through the 1960s. Most of the attention is paid to the period between 1890 and 1945, and you can see how Indiana, and the lives of her denizens, change through the generations as technology, war, and economic booms and busts ripple their way across the landscape.
There aren't enough words in the world to describe how grateful I am that this book, as well as the other books in this series, exist. Oral histories are rather wonderful things, I think, particularly when the histories touch on the lives and times of parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles who are passing on, taking their own life stories with them, as well as the precious details of "how life was" for the everyday person.
Something to ponder: it might be worth reading this book, or excerpts of it, aloud to your senior relatives. Sometimes memories of past times, events, people, manners, and objects spur their memories and minds more than recent things, and will engage and energize them more. Plus, it might spur them to reminisce about their own lives, and thus you will learn more about them.
So says one of them women interviewed in this book, which is a collection of oral histories of Hoosier women who grew up from the late-1800s through the 1960s. Most of the attention is paid to the period between 1890 and 1945, and you can see how Indiana, and the lives of her denizens, change through the generations as technology, war, and economic booms and busts ripple their way across the landscape.
There aren't enough words in the world to describe how grateful I am that this book, as well as the other books in this series, exist. Oral histories are rather wonderful things, I think, particularly when the histories touch on the lives and times of parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles who are passing on, taking their own life stories with them, as well as the precious details of "how life was" for the everyday person.
Something to ponder: it might be worth reading this book, or excerpts of it, aloud to your senior relatives. Sometimes memories of past times, events, people, manners, and objects spur their memories and minds more than recent things, and will engage and energize them more. Plus, it might spur them to reminisce about their own lives, and thus you will learn more about them.
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