Need great depression stories, recipes, etc.

[coruscate]

Hey there! I'm helping a survivor of the Great Depression put together something that she dearly wants to accomplish: The passing on of knowledge of her generation, to ours, when we need this information the most. I'm 32, she's 75, and we both agree that we are in the Second Great Depression, no ifs, ands or buts about it!!

I've built most of the infrastructure of the site and populated it with her recipes, pictures and a few contributions of the same; if you have ANYTHING to share, PLEASE DO!

http://www.healthyinsanity.com/ruby

Also, I need to set up a blog for her somehow, she's a smart lady but HTML, FTP etc. are beyond the scope of her knowledge. So what would you all recommend that would be easy to use blog-wise? Ultimately she'll need a blog that has an internet based, rather than client-side-software based update form that is easy to read and understand.... but I've never blogged before, the closest I've come is LiveJournal.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Horse with no Name]

1. You could actually have her come here and join

And use her Journal feature to write in. It is about as easy as it comes and it is free.

[Donnachaidh]

2. blogger.com is really easy to set up.

It's pretty much a no-brainer.

[coruscate]

8. Wow that was easy

To make it easier I marked up a couple of screen shots to guide her through, thanks, that's just what the doctor ordered!

[Donnachaidh]

13. yup -- set one up for another non-techie person myself

glad to help ;-)

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Coffee with chickory. Where did she live during the depression?

[Mojorabbit]

4. Great site so far

typos in the pheasant recipe
"Any extra stiffing can be wrapped in tin foil and place along side pheaseants till baked."
on edit several more typos but it adds to the charm

[coruscate]

6. Thanks for pointing that out!

I've been on the internet too long, typos are never "flavor" ^^;;

But thanks, I corrected what should be most of them though if anyone sees any more please let me know, I went through all seven pages.

[medeak]

5. my 94 yr old Dad has many stories as well as 80 yr old Mom

Grandfather rode the rails like a hobo looking for jobs to support his family... what I recall is the poorest "wore their money on their backs" which resonated with me today... everyone pretending to be flush with the lastest car ect. My Mom was orphaned at age 12 with 10 siblings during the depression. They lived on a farm thank goodness and had milk and eggs...but she still to this day hasn't recovered from the trauma of people sending them hand-me-downs. She has 3 degrees and very accomplished but when I took her back to her home place to visit she became the most pitiful little girl again. Broke my heart.

[coruscate]

7. Thanks for sharing, may I post that?

Even short little stories like that can be collected on a single page to give people a better idea of what happened from then till now.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. I love this cookbook: Grandma's Wartime Recipes

http://www.nostalgictreasures.com/World_War_II/Cookbooks.html

[RebelOne]

10. If she is 75, she was just a baby during the depression.

The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries.

How could she remember it?

[coruscate]

12. Here's your answer

At the age of 75 I rememeber very well starting school grade, one at the age of 5. Our teacher was the daughter of the postmaster from our town. I loved our one room schoolhouse. From then on I recall pretty well everything. In my lunch box the black oval shaped metal, was home made bread with pork lard spread with salt and pepper on it, and was so ashamed we would keep the lid open (high) so no one would see what we had.

[Fumesucker]

11. I recall a story my father told me..

He asked another boy that was eating an apple if he could have the core..

The answer was "There ain't gonna' be no core to this apple".

I was a boy when I heard it and it made enough of an impression to last fifty years.