This story covers the time tunnel of the Great Depression in an area of Texas that had not changed for several decades and would continue to progress only slowly until the 1960s-the Panhandle. It is a child's view of the brutal realism of the time, the smells, the blood, the cold, the lack of sanitation, and the rigidity of the adults surrounding her. It is the story of the author's first year in a school where parents are entertained with a prejudicial skit about African Americans, where a teacher whips a boy with a razor strap until he bleeds, where the girls pick dandruff from the head of the teacher while she is instructing, and where the violent weather plays a role as both protagonist and antagonist. Seven-year-old Wanda Gene observes her environment, which is oftentimes unthinkable and repugnant to a modern reader, with clarity, humor, and the mature wisdom of a child who finds joy in petting the baby lambs on her farm and reviving rain-drenched chicks in the stove. With a child's innocence and naivet�, she looks candidly at the customs of the era and questions their purpose, capturing as she does so the social milieu that was 1939.

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Born in 1932, Wanda Harris Arnold (Wanda Gene) grew up in the Texas Panhandle and, as a child, witnessed the poverty, savage weather, and economic devastation of the Depression. These experiences shaped her life philosophy, which she imparted on numerous occasions to her children: “It's not what happens to you that's important; it's how you react to what happens to you.” In the 1980s, she served as president general of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a reflection of her love of genealogy and history. She left one unpublished manuscript when she died in 2004. This is that story.

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