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“They are still in drought in terms of a Bathurst victory. Still waiting for that win. The longest losing streak in the history of the race. I’m calling a little early perhaps because this is after all, Mount Panorama” –Neil Compton on the last lap of the 2004 Bathurst 1000.
I chose this image because I believe that the men during the Great Depression were seen as being the bread winners for their family. However due to the economic conditions of the time, many were forced onto the dole (welfare). It Continue reading “Jobless Men Keep Going”
“Punishment” is the 56th entry in the radio broadcast Your Children by Angelo Patri. This radio broadcast was turned into an eight-page transcript produced in 1932 by the Cream of Wheat Corporation in association with the Columbia Broadcasting System in Minneapolis. It is currently housed at the University of Alabama’s W.S Hoole Special Collections Library.
This image of a woman and her children is one of the most recognizable images when a person thinks about the Great Depression. It is a very powerful image because it is as if she is lost in her thought, or worry, completely
Davis, Jonathan. History Over Chatanooga. A Southerner Discovers the South.The McMillian Company. 1938
Jonathan Davis’s book “A Southerner Discovers the South” contains a chapter titled ‘History Over Chattanooga’ that follows the author and his friend Joe on
(May 23, 1914- Oct 18,1993)
Contributed by his great-grandson, Philip Williams Knott.
Philip Williams was the third of five children to John Philip Williams and Harriet Overton Williams on the Overton’s family farm, known as Traveler’s Rest, on Franklin Pike Street, in Nashville, TN. When the Depression hit in 1929 his family sold the farm. Fortunately, his family entered the coal brokerage industry prior to the economic downturn, allowing Philip to attend Vanderbilt University, graduating June 1935. He attempted Columbia law, but after a year he dropped out to become a sales associate at the Continental Can Company (CCC), moving to Memphis, TN. Then in September of 1936, he married Martha Jane Boyd and she gave birth to my grandmother, Phyllis Williams, a year later in November of 1937. Philip continued working for the CCC through the Great Depression before enlisting in the U.S. Army in July 1942, during World War II. He lived to be 79, dying on October 18, 1993.
Photo-credit to Mollie Knott (sister), taken from Phyllis Williams Mostellar’s personal family photo-collection.
I was only alive for six months before my great grandfather, Philip Williams, died at age 79. Born the third of five children in 1914 in Nashville, Tennessee, Philip inherited a keen mind for business from his father, John Philip, a physician before entering the coal brokerage industry with his brother-in-law. Continue reading “UN-canning the Importance of the Tin Can”
(1891-1967)
Contributed by his great-granddaughter Allison Drew
Giuseppe Antonio Defilippis was born in Castellonorato, a small village in northern Italy. When he was seven years old his family moved to Marçay to gain French citizenship so they could more easily immigrate to America. In 1905, the fourteen-year-old Giuseppe immigrated to New York city alone to start his new life in America. In 1921 he married fellow Italian, Maria Russo, and they moved into an apartment on Utica Avenue in Brooklyn. By 1938 they had seven children (Libero, 16; Concetta, 14; Avanti, 12; Leone, 10; Tullio, 9; Sylvia, 7; Lillian, 1). Maria and Giuseppe would eventually have one more child, Lorena, in 1947. Giuseppe worked as a bootblack on Wall Street to ensure that each of his children could receive a proper education and a fulfilling life.
I was once told that my great-grandfather never had a Christmas tree in his house after the fall of the stock market in 1929. My father told me that the decision to forgo a Christmas tree was made out of fear-fear that he might lose all of the things that he had worked so hard for. I should not have been surprised by this story because I know how superstitious my family can be, but I couldn’t help it.
My great grandfather, Giuseppe Antonio Defilippis, moved to America from Italy with hopes of achieving the American Dream. He was born in 1891 in a small hilltop village in northern Italy. In 1905 at the age of fourteen, he journeyed alone to Ellis Island to begin his new life in America. He married Continue reading “Work Hard Then Work Harder”