But here’s where you can start to find out. It’s a new video series about the Great Depression launching at the New York Times.
It’s amazing what people lived through in the first half of the twentieth century. Not that the 19th century or any other period in human history was anything but dark, germy, cold, and hard. Fact is, those of us born in the fifties and thereafter, at least in the Western world, have lived through the glory days of humanity. We’re almost a different race from those who came before us. And we’re lucky.
But, man, during the first Depression, the real and Great Depression, people actually scrounged for food. People actually stood in long lines for food. People actually starved.
This guy here is so hungry, he’s trying to eat a woman’s full-course hat.
