When we were your age, a peek at New England childhoods of the 1920's, 30s, and 40s, by Anne G.D. Smith
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When we were your age, a peek at New England childhoods of the 1920's, 30s, and 40s, by Anne G.D. Smith
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When we were your age
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by Anne G.D. Smith
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a peek at New England childhoods of the 1920's, 30s, and 40s
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Meet twenty-five former children who have shared their stories of growing up in New England: Elle, who hated breakfast; Sonny, who liked to skip school; Lucy, who had an abusive stepmother; Shirl, who soaped store windows on Halloween; Helen, who proved her whole town wrong; Butch, who posed for Norman Rockwell; Pumple and Bella, who wore dresses made from flour sacks, just like all their friends; Edith, who won a bottle of cod liver oil in a radio contest; Walt, whose teacher saved him from a life of crime; and Rosanna, who gave up dancing, smoking and boyfriends because she ... (you can find out in chapter 10). Aged eighty through ninety-nine when interviewed, they were economically diverse and represented many of New England's major immigrant groups of the period
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