In memoriam

If my father were still alive he'd celebrating his 91st birthday today. By the start of the Great Depression he was already well into his teenage years. This year I'm reminded of just how different his experience growing up, in a very large, and not particularly wealthy family, must have been from mine. We weren't rich either, but at least I got the advantages of late 20th century living conditions, and I wasn't expected to abandon schooling for work, to bring in some more money for the family, as I suspect he was. What would he have done if he had my opportunities?