Albert left home today, Papa and my other brothers and sisters walked four miles to Mrs. Bellum's house to listen to the Fireside Chats. She's our closest neighbor. Mr. Roosevelt said that the young men who needed work could go to the CCC. Papa says that's where Al is going... he says we probably won't see him for a while. Mr. Roosevelt is a good man for hiring Al. He's a hard worker and Papa says that he'll make us some money, too!
I haven't seen a dollar bill in a while.
Ever since Mama died, things have gotten worse and worse and worse. Papa has gotten more serious and he is home more often... sometimes we don't even have food on the table for days. When mama was here, we would have at least two meals a day.
I miss mama.
I miss being able to eat.
and now, even though he's only been gone since this morning, I'm missing Al, too.
awh how cute!
ReplyDeletei'm glad Al could find some work through the CCC.
A lot of white men were recruited to the CCC during the New Deal. Partly because of FDR's desire to destroy the nations natural resources, but also because it abled families to have a source of income. Without men in the work force and in the CCC, this ultiately gave women the right to enter the work force. So depending on the age of the little poor white girl, she could end up going to work for her other brothers and bring in some money as well.
mmhmm! this was an account of my grandma, she was about five or so when the depression came about so she wasn't old enough to work. She did work in a gun factory at the end of WWII though. It was her first job and she said it was really tough!
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