"Second Printing, January 1973" stated on copyright page; by Robert J. Hastings; 1972; University Graphics and Publications; hardbound; very good conditon of book and covers; no dust jacket.
 
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Told from the point of view of a young boy, this account shows how a family "faced the 1930s head on and lived to tell the story." It is the story of grow­ing up in southern Illinois, specifically the Marion area during the Great Depression.
 
...when it was first published in 1972 the book proved to be more than one writer's memories of depression-era southern Illinois.  "People started writing me from all over the country," Hastings noted. "And all said much the same: 'You were writing about my family, as much as your own. That's how I remember the 1930s, too.'"