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♦ WEDNESDAY, JULY », 2008
The legacy of the Great Depression: doing without and 'making do'
Antique
lovers and
bargain
hunters
have actu
ally been
doing the
above
for many
years
but with
the tight
Jillinda Falen
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economy that we now find
ourselves in, it has become
more popular to return to
the ideals of our grandpar
ents and great grandparents
who made it through the
Great Depression and World
Warll.
How many folks remem
ber the saying, Use it up,
wear it out, make it do, or
do without?
Uncle Sam just sent us
all checks to “stimulate”
our economy and feed our
Jean Rea Day at the Perry Farmers Market -- and some watermelon memories
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appetite for consumerism.
Burpee seed company is hav
ing a record year due to the
all the folks who are plant
ing their own gardens to
save money and have their
own fresh, organic low-cost
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Folks are believing that
along with the outrageous
price of gas, com prices are
going to soar as well which
of course, anything that has
to be “transported” will go
up.
When I do estate sales for
folks, I can tell which ones
grew up during the depres
sion or Second World War.
These dear people never
through out a single alumi
num pie plate, mayo jar or
margarine tub!
You will find hundreds
in the cabinets or garage.
Some would say they were
crazy but the smart person
Saturday was Jean Rea
Day at the Perry Farmers
Market, as her many friends
honored her contributions to
the success of the market as
well as her other community
work.
Jean was constantly mak
ing baked goods, putting up
delectable canned goods and
sharing her recipes with oth
ers.
She also had a personal
Christian mission of help
ing women in prison, both
during their incarceration
and during their efforts to
rebuild their lives after their
release.
Jean won a faithful fol
lowing in this paper with
her weekly articles on down
home cooking. I know that
many of you are still using
her recipes.
She left Perry on Friday
and is now in hospice care
in her former home of
Pensacola, where her son
lives.
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can see all the uses for these
leftover items besides put
ting them in a trash bag and
tossing it in the landfill.
Future archaeologists will
not need anymore trash to
examine from our genera
tion! We toss it in the trash
and the trash man takes it
away. Where do you thing
that all goes? Magnify that
by millions and billions?
People in Third World
Countries could live like
kings off of the food that
we waste every day, not only
but at home but have you
ever seen the amount of food
that a grocery store or res
taurant throws out in one
day? The waste would make
you weep.
Does anyone remember
the war ration books? Folks
today would mutiny to think
they had to pull together and
do the right thing to support'
our military by “having to
do without” something. In
She has terminal cancer
and is fragile but still very
alert, and told me Friday
morning that Perry had
been wonderful to her. She
also had warm praise for the
staff of Serenity Gate.
had fun talking with Helen
Poole and Virginia Jones at
the market. Sharon Persons
joined in, too. The Farmers
Market is really the place
to be on Saturday morning.
You would have thought we
were on an old front porch
rocking on downtown on a
1940 s Saturday morning.
Roland Everett Fall was
singing his sons, playing his
harmonica and guitar, and
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-1942 FDR created a new
position of “food administra
tor” to supervise the ration
ing. Each citizen regardless
of age got 2 ration books on
a specific date.
Blue coupons were used
with cash to purchase canned
foods, red tickets were for
meat, fish and dairy. An
average family of 4 got 8
ration books per month.
Many cookbooks from that
era have recipes that dealt
with the rationing of meat,
sugar and eggs.
Why did they ration sugar,
you may ask? Phillipine
imports had been cut off and
ships carrying Cuban and
Puerto Rican sugar were
needed for the war efforts.
Silk and Nylon was used for
parachutes for our military
instead of ladies stockings
and such. Factories mak
ing civilian products such as
autos and appliances were
converted to making arma
people were catching up on
the news and talking food.
We discussed blackberries,
how to make cobblers and
the whole matter of water
melons, because we are of a
generation that NEVER ate
watermelon indoors in our
childhood.
Helen remembers cooling
the melons by putting them
in the creek.
I remember my grand
mother driving to the ice
house with watermelons
that had been left on the
front porch by farming
friends.
I don’t think we ever
bought one. We had an ice
box but it was hardly big
enough for a watermelon.
She’d drive back late in the
afternoon and return with
the watermelon, which
would be cut on the back
yard “cookout” on newspa
pers and eaten in big wedges
with plenty of salt. Salt on
watermelon? I can’t even
imagine doing that now,
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ments.
Many women were called
into the work force as the
men went to the battlefields.
That is where our Rosie the
Riveters came on the scene,
but that is another story for
another day! Are there any
Rosies in Perry who would
like to tell me their story? I
would love to share it with
our readers.
Mamas, if your little girls
like the American Girl Doll
series and you want them to
learn about the Depression
Era history as well, take
them to see the Kit Kittredge
movie that came out this
week. I know that is where
I will be taking my daughter
Hope for her birthday this
week. We are also fond of this
particular character because
the setting for her series is
Cincinnati, my birthplace.
We just returned from a trip
there and are looking for-
but we sure did it then.
Grownups often used table
knives while eating their
wedges, and kids just bit in
and spit out the seeds. We
also made “false teeth” with
the rind, and walked around
looking like Bugs Bunny.
I bought one of the small
seedless ones the other day
and it was very good, which
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ward to the movie. It will
be a great opportunity to
talk to her about our history
and help her learn about
the things that people went
through, to see the vehicles,
the clothing and such. I
hope the movie will be true
to the time period! Maybe
now would be a good time to
talk to Grandma or Great-
Grandma and learn some
of the timeless tips that
they used growing up that
would certainly apply today!
Happy Collecting!
Jillinda Falen is the for
mer owner of Carrie Lynns
Antiques and is an experi
enced estate liquidation spe
cialist as well as a licensed
REALTOR. She is also in
charge of the Antiques sec
tion of the Georgia National
Fair. You can contact her
at falen@windstream.net
or via the Houston Home
Journal.
I point out because I think
the first ones on the market
didn’t seem to have much fla
vor. This one was excellent.
There really are tiny seeds,
but they’re edible (sort of
like cucumber seeds) .
This conversation led to
the matter of watermelon
rind pickles. See next week
for the recipe.
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