CHILD OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

About the Book

In this book CHILD OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, I try to recapture and revive the lore of the enduring legacy of Powellville. My, but there are so many things to remember: riding atop a load of tomatoes and throwing a tomato at every mailbox along the way, shooting marbles in the alley by the general store, playing baseball, splashing naked in the swimming hole in the creek in the woods. Those were just childhood activities. The real legacy of the town is based on the sharing of life's journey among all those who lived there: the hardship, the sacrifice, the happiness, the tragedy, and all the bad and good of human nature. In short, it is a portrait of the trials and the struggles, the humor and the woe that most Americans shared during the years of the Great Depression.

About the Author

William Elihu Palmer grew up near Salisbury, Maryland where he taught Spanish at Salisbury University. His wife, Angeles, is from Spain. They have four children. His interest in Columbus developed while teaching at the University of Salamanca, Spain, in 1965. Since then he has traveled to many of the places important in the life of Columbus. In 1989 he attended the National Endowment of the Humanities Institute at UCLA on "The Intellectual World of Christopher Columbus". During the celebration of the Quincentenary of the discovery of the New World in 1992 he performed a one-man show called "Columbus Rediscovered." This book "The Lost Journal of Christopher Columbus" probes the intimate thoughts and deep motives of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea.