John Donald O'Shea

My mother and father helped many families during the "Great Depression." One time, a family with seven children came to the door. ... I can remember seeing these children; they looked like they were starving. We took them into our house. That's the way my mom and dad were.

The Story of an America that no longer exists.What was it like to live in America 90 years ago? Have you ever needed to use an outhouse at two in the morning? Bathed in a corrugated metal tub with water heated on a wood-burning stove? Read at night by kerosine lamp? Fell to your knees in the early morning and prayed that your father might find job that day? Has your mother darned socks and made clothes for you from flour sacks? Have...