Life With A 100-Year-Old, Week 1
1930s were recent times
“Your home looks like a museum,” several visitors have observed. Now, with the addition of my mother-in-law, Carol Franklin Holliday, born in 1922, it truly is. She recalls the presidencies of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945), the Great Depression (1929-39), and World War II (1939-45) as if they were recent.
She grew up in W…
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