- It was very hard then, during the Depression. There was no food, and there were people walking around, asking each other, did they have food, or could it be shared. People had no money to buy seeds or plants or anything like that to plant.

WILLIAM HAGUE: I can remember like tail lights shining and the wet street. And then the darkness. And people walking along with their coats all huddled up over them.

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- I was born 1920, May 12th. Oh, my father he worked on the railroad, and he worked for $9 a week.

WILLIAM HAGUE: Oh, everybody was affected by this. It was for example, the president of the Duquesne Trust Company because of the Depression and because of the Wall Street collapse, he went out to the bleachers and hung himself. The head of the bank. Because he had gotten so many people buying things that he regretted. I mean, this is a kind of memories we have of this time.

DOROTHY WOMBLE: We saw like men and women standing on the street. Some of them had a basket. Some had a bag. And they would say, please buy apple. Only $0.05. Buy it. Buy it.

- This young woman asked if she could come up and talk, and my mother said, yes. She said, we have nothing to eat at home, and I've got to eat. So my mother said, fine, I'll give you some food to take to your family.

DOROTHY WOMBLE: Somehow my mother and father would get flour, and if our next door neighbor didn't have, my mother would share it with them.

- Everybody was kind of feeling sorry for everyone and being as helpful as they could be. And those that had something were willing to share. Because we felt we were all on the same boat together.

- And it went on like that for quite a while. And as things went on, the election came up, it was time, and people would get together in groups, and they would be discussing about Roosevelt running, and everybody would be saying, oh, they would be praying that he would win.

- And it took a while for the effects of the stock market and all that financial business to take hold. I think that there's great hopefulness in this country. I think that everybody believes in America, in the basic values. And I think it'll come out all right.