The Great Depression
By: Ariana, Adkin and Dream
Overview of the Great Depression
Personal Stories
Henry Marquez remembers that the winters were very cold and all of his 12 siblings had to huddle for warmth on the floor. There was trash everywhere and his sister came down with tuberculosis. And he is trying to help his old town but it isn’t quite working. He also remembers how hard it was to find food to eat and hard for his mother to feed all of her children. That is why he is trying to give back to his original town to help them strive .
Les Orear had a father that was a newspapermen and he was in college at the time the stock market crashed. They had holidays off but he did not view them as holidays, he viewed them as days with no pay. He learned the value of money and he knows that sometimes it is not easy to come by. One of his biggest pet peeves are when the younger generation complains about things that are not important and when they are ungrateful, because at one point he had nothing and now they have everything.