The letter would depend on several factors. Like the
previous writer stated, your age would be an important factor. How old you were would
impact you recollections of the event. Young children would most likely not remember
much of the Great Depression.
If you were of working age,
your profession would impact your letter as well. Farmers were impacted as prices fell.
This would impact their earnings and the amount of work they needed to do in order to
make a profit. The need for government handouts and charity was
large.
Families had to learn to make good with what they
had. That is how depression style cooking came into being. Many recipes from that time
do not utilize flour or sugar.
Many people lost their homes
because they couldn't pay their mortgages.
"Shanty towns constructed of packing crates,
abandoned cars and other cast off scraps sprung up across the Nation. Gangs of youths,
whose families could no longer support them, rode the rails in box cars like so many
hoboes, hoping to find a job."
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