Welcome back, everybody. As you know weve been in a guilded age for some time now, and weve already seen the technological innovations that made some of this economic expansion possible. We saw both the economic transformations and the effects of those changes in the economy as far as lifestyles, both of the very rich, these opulent Robert Baron Lifestyle on one hand. And on the other hand, the very poor. Whether it was the people living in the shacks of the new England Mill towns or whether it was when we explored the gilded age city, the increasing problems of housing and of sanitation that came with this rapid and in many ways chaotic growth of the cities in the late 19th century, all of this of course accompanied by problems going along with immigration. And then last time we saw in particular there was some frustration with this with this new gilded age regime as we talked about the farmers in this period. That lecture really could have been called discontent in the gilded Age Par
This interview is there the Veterans History Project and conducted by the kenan research center. I was born three weeks before Pearl Harbor and i did not meet my father until the end of 1945 when he came home from service. He and five of his brothers wore the uniform in World War ii and four of my mothers brothers. So we were heavily invested in that war, and my earliest memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. You know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples, they had maybe one or two kids. The war broke out and then the father is gone and hes gone mostly for the duration of the war. So we my mother and i lived between her Mothers House and the little town of mar kate, texas, and his Mothers House in the little town of franklin, texas, which was 28 miles away. We would ride the bus between those two. My mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one place and we moved to
This interview is there the Veterans History Project and conducted by the kenan research center. I was born three weeks before Pearl Harbor and i did not meet my father until the end of 1945 when he came home from service. He and five of his brothers wore the uniform in World War ii and four of my mothers brothers. So we were heavily invested in that war, and my earliest memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. You know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples, they had maybe one or two kids. The war broke out and then the father is gone and hes gone mostly for the duration of the war. So we my mother and i lived between her Mothers House and the little town of mar kate, texas, and his Mothers House in the little town of franklin, texas, which was 28 miles away. We would ride the bus between those two. My mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one place and we moved to
Memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. You know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples, they had maybe one or two kids. The war broke out and then the father is gone and hes gone mostly for the duration of the war. So we my mother and i lived between her Mothers House and the little town of mar kate, texas, and his Mothers House in the little town of franklin, texas, which was 28 miles away. We would ride the bus between those two. My mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one place and we moved to the other. I can remember a little alligator embossed cardboard suitcase, we would pack all our belongings in and head down the road. Those were the years of World War ii and i have a memory of Scrap Metal collections and saving bacon grease, which i have no idea what they did, something to do with ammunition. You know, i remember my mother they only gave you the Ration B
He and five of his brothers wore the uniform in World War ii, and four of my mothers brothers. So we were heavily invested in that war. And my earliest memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. You know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples. They had maybe one or two kids. The war broke out. And then the father is gone. And hes gone mostly for the duration of the war. So we my mother and i lived between her Mothers House in a little town in texas and his Mothers House in franklin texas, which was 28 miles away. And we would ride the bus between those two. My mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one place, and wed move to the other. Had a little i can remember a little alligator embossed Cardboard Suit Case we would back all our belongings in and head down the road. Those were the years of World War ii. And i have a memory of Scrap Metal collections and saving bacon