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Childhood Through the Lens of Food

Water Boy On A Peach Farm in Newman, Georgia in 1945 Courtesy of the US National Archive

Water Boy On A Peach Farm in Newman, Georgia in 1945 Courtesy of the US National Archive

In researching my book Hog and Hominy I conducted some thirty interviews with people born before 1945. Some never left the South, and others were southerners or like my mother and father, the children of southerners who migrated from the south to the North. Many of them had vivid memories of their childhood through the lens of food. As an adult, my Dad Fred Opie Jr. made regular donations to the Salvation Army as thanks for the acts of kindness they showed to his family during the Great Depression. “If it wasn’t for the Salvation Army, my family would have never survived the Depression,” because they brought our family much needed food. Below find wonderful stories about children and food.

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Books

Where People Went to “Eat, Meet, Rest, Plan, and Strategize”

Where People Went to “Eat, Meet, Rest, Plan, and Strategize”

Domestic Workers And the Great Depression