1st blog "The Beginning"

In the small college city in Colorado where I lived we all strove to do our best to overcome adverse economic conditions that seriously threatened most families during the depression of the 1930s. I attended a school system which taught me many things I wanted to learn about. It also enhanced the values that I was taught at home by parents who had left Wyoming, a place which was in much worse economic condition than our present state. We listened to radio addresses by President Roosevelt and believed in what we were told. I sometimes read "My Day" by the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, and my small family felt we were being led to a better way of life. I felt it was a blue print to happiness and success. We had representatives in Congress, I was told, who were looking after my families interests, plus the interests of all of my friends. With such help how could we fail? We never locked even our screen doors at night; after all who would want to harm us? I had this "I love all my friends and neighbors" attitude and would greet complete strangers to a cheery "good morning!" and always got a positive response in turn. Life was wonderful, but rumblings from Europe were getting louder in '39.