I am a child of the FDR initiatives (my Dad, an engineer who graduated from the University of Maryland, went to Alabama to help build Wilson Dam, a TVA project.) That's where he met my mother, and that's why I'm here.
A few years prior to that, during the worst of the Great Depression, my grandfather died---he had been a wealthy wholesale grocer, but every dime he had went to feed his friends and customers who were, well, broke.
My grandmother had no college degree or any other skill that could earn money in Alabama at that time. But she DID have a great big house and she rented out every room she could That kept her going.
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