Louisiana Grassroots: Growing up in Northeast Louisiana in the Great Depression and World War Ii
By May Shadoin
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Louisiana Grassroots aims to pass on something of the courage and determination of the grassroots men and women of my childhood in Northeast Louisiana. Unsung heroes, they endured the hardships of the Depression in the rural South, and for an encore, they fought a world war to defend our freedom.
These events may seem far removed from the present, but for those of us who lived them, they are a part of the sum total of our lives the same as the happenings of today, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, or LSU Tigers Football.
May Shadoin
May Shadoin is a retired administrative staff member from the College of Engineering, Louisiana Tech University. Previously, as a legal secretary, she worked with the longest serving District Attorney in the U.S. She currently lives in Ruston, Louisiana, where she serves on the library staff of the First Baptist Church.
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Louisiana Grassroots - May Shadoin
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LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 4/15/2014
Contents
A Remembrance
Preface
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Introduction
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Part Two
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Part Three
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Epilogue
Bibliography
A Remembrance
Of the grassroots men and women
of my childhood in rural
Northeast Louisiana
during the
Great Depression and World War II
Preface
T o mark my seventy-fifth year, for my family I wrote about my early life as a child growing up in rural Northeast Louisiana during the Great Depression and World W ar II.
There were things I wanted to pass on to those who were born after those times. Would they be interested in things that happened so long ago? I didn’t know.
Their response was immediate; they were interested, enthusiastic even. They wanted to know more and urged me to publish my account of those times. Others joined in. This book is the result of their encouragement.
The true heroes are the grassroots men and women of my childhood who withstood the hardships of the Great Depression with strength and determination and who answered the call to defend our country in World War II. Their lives give a glimpse of the fiber of a nation.
Perhaps the events told about here seem far removed from the present, but for those of us who lived them they are a part of the sum total of our lives the same as the happenings of today, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, or LSU Tigers Football.
Acknowledgements
I owe sincere thanks to a number of persons for encouraging me in the writing and publishing of L ouisiana Grass roots.
I owe my thanks to friends and family members who saw something in what I wrote, especially my grandchildren, who are young adults; their interest and enthusiasm counted in a big way. Thanks to friends who saw their own stories in it.
Thanks to my sister, Katherine, for being glad I was telling a story she always wanted told.
I’m grateful to another Northeast Louisiana native, the late Howard K. Smith, network news anchor. Recalling an earlier offhanded comment of his about my