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By Walter Day
Special to the Rappahannock News
I want to talk about my childhood during the great depression. The period was about 1935 and I was ten years old. We lived on a farm on the edge of a sage brush desert. It seldom rained so farming depended upon irrigation.
The water came from the Snake River. The water in the river came from the melting snows accumulated during the winter in the mountains. If it did not snow or rain there was no farming.
The depression was accompanied by a slowing of precipitation. This resulted in what was referred to as the “Dust Bowl”. People living in the Midwest were without food, income or water. They left to go to California. They were called “Okies”.
We would see them come by our house in a car piled high with all their belongings. The movie “Grapes of Wrath” portrayed them accurately.
My father put in a one pump service station. It was a good location, just past the desert. They all needed gas and water. They did not have any money and we didn’t have much water. Water had to be hauled in from a mile away.
We had no phone nor electricity.
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