Reply #5: My mom wasn't so "lucky" [View All]

[eleny]

When she was 14, in 1933, her dad died very suddenly. She had a younger sister who was 7. Mom dropped out of high school and cleaned houses because no one would hire her for factory work. Growing up, she told us the stories of trying to find work and even being chased out of a factory for trying.

I marvel at her strength of character and her working as a nanny or cleaning houses to help bring in some money to the household. But I'll never gloss it over. And I recognize the tough times the family had and what it took to put food on the table.

I hope stories of working in the CCC came down to you. It was very important work in my book.