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Harris Blackwood: Mama’s generation didn’t miss what they didn’t have
Harris Blackwood
Harris Blackwood
My mother was born before the Great Depression and had a hardscrabble upbringing as the daughter of a sharecropper. No, she never told tales of walking uphill in the snow to school, but she did give me a glimpse of life without frills. The family home did not have electricity until she was halfway through high school. A bath was a once a week event in a galvanized washtub.