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    A Heritage to Remember: Growing up Poor but Blessed in a Small Midwestern Town
    A Heritage to Remember: Growing up Poor but Blessed in a Small Midwestern Town
    A Heritage to Remember: Growing up Poor but Blessed in a Small Midwestern Town
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    A Heritage to Remember: Growing up Poor but Blessed in a Small Midwestern Town

    By Orpha Sanders Barnes

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    Uncovering the day-to-day routines and activities of a family with seven children should be interesting in any age, but when it covers Depression years to World War II, its especially revealing. The narrative throughout is in rhyme, and the author is dealing mostly with first-hand experiences so she brings the common and not-so-common aspects of the Sanders family into bold relief.
    How to celebrate Christmas when there is virtually no money for gifts; how the father attempts to discourage the chicken-thief; how to keep food on the table when the bread-winner has trouble collecting for the household products he has sold door-to-door; and the isolation experienced when TB forces the mother to live for a year in a sanitarium out of town.
    The richness of the details in this narrative demonstrates the storehouse of memories possessed by Ms. Barnes as well as the insights gained from being a first-hand protagonist in this familys struggle.
    The six children who grew to maturity had many relatives nearby. The closeness of these relatives displays a dimension of community often lacking in our hectic, modern pace.
    Of special interest is the way this family (and especially the parents) devoted themselves to their church and its outreach. Gods work came first, as much of the fathers activities will demonstrate.
    Not a steadily unfolding plot, but more like a series of intriguing cameos, this narrative portrays a picture of one familys involvement in Mid-western culture of the 30s and 40s.
    These verses, laced with humor and pathos, show that a home is truly blessed where there is mutual love and a rich spiritual heritage.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 17, 2011
    ISBN9781456759339
    A Heritage to Remember: Growing up Poor but Blessed in a Small Midwestern Town
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    Orpha Sanders Barnes

    Orpha Barnes has been a chaplain’s and minister’s wife (which involved world travels), a high school teacher (major in biology), a receptionist and proofreader for an international tele-evangelism ministry, and a constant writer on many subjects.

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