From the Great Depression to the Twenty-first Century, my Grandma always had moxie
Grandma. She’s the little girl standing front and center in the first photo. She just turned 95.
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She likes to tell us that the family looks like share croppers in this picture. She was raised in Kansas and grew up during the Great Depression. One of her favorite stories to tell is about raising pet raccoons.
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Prior to the Great Depression, my great grandfather paid my grandma and her siblings to handle the raccoons, with the goal of domesticating them for sale as pets.
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When the Depression hit hard and food and money were hard to come by, they butchered the raccoons and sold the meat and pelts to members of the Osage tribe just across the border. No one had it easy then.
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Needless to say, my grandma is a colorful lady with more moxie than most of us could ever think to summon.
These are just a few of my favorite photos of her, including my grandparents together on their wedding day in Riverside park.
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~shared by @auty99
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