Approaching the Great Depression...

Grandma Sarah, about age 16

This photo must have been taken when Grandma was about 15-16...and if you do the math, that puts her right around the stock market crash of 1929 and looking down the long nose of the Great Depression. She always knew how to have a good time, no matter how bad times were. I included a poem below that she copied out by hand into a notebook (she must have really liked and believed it!). Don't forget to scroll all the way down to see it.

Tribulations

Looking back it seems to me
All the grief that had to be
Left me when the pain was o're
Richer than I'd been before.

And by every hurt and blow,
Suffered in the long ago,
I can face the world today
In a bigger, kindlier way.

Pleasure doesn't make the man

Life requires a sterner hand

He who never knows a care

Never learns what he can bear.

-- author unknown