2016 Postmortem

Hortensis

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12. Would like it too. I've read one similar but

Sun Sep 18, 2016, 10:18 AM

Sep 2016

not that one. It won't be surprising, but I've also read a book about the depression, and all the problems that came with it, that was endemic on the prairie in those days. Not all people, having given up their families, friends, churches, communities, traditions, heritages, to try to build a new life in the middle of nowhere were as suited to it as Laura's parents.

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Hillary Clinton Gets Stuff Done the Midwestern Way [View all] DonViejo Sep 2016 OP

Great article! Thanks for posting this. livetohike Sep 2016 #1

I read an interesting book once. Cracklin Charlie Sep 2016 #2

Would LOVE to read that! Democrats Ascendant Sep 2016 #3

Been so long, but I will try. Cracklin Charlie Sep 2016 #5

Thanks! Democrats Ascendant Sep 2016 #10

Would like it too. I've read one similar but Hortensis Sep 2016 #12

I would like to recommend... Cracklin Charlie Sep 2016 #7

Yes, that is also a very inspiring history! Democrats Ascendant Sep 2016 #11

Just ordered it. Thanks, Cracklin Charlie. Hortensis Sep 2016 #13

Yes to this - DURHAM D Sep 2016 #4

Where did your people settle? Cracklin Charlie Sep 2016 #6

I've been working on my genealogy too, and am finding the stories of their lives Lucinda Sep 2016 #8

They also don't get 6 foot portraits made to stroke their egos. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2016 #9