Making Do and Hanging On

Growing Up in Apple Country Through the Great Depression

by Bruce L. Foxworthy


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 10/30/2008

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 352
ISBN : 9781434399175
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : E-Book
Page Count : 352
ISBN : 9781434399182

About the Book

    No place in America escaped the impacts of the Great Depression, from 1929 to 1939. Even the quiet, orchard-filled Entiat Valley of the author’s boyhood suffered its cruel effects. 

    Making Do and Hanging On—Growing Up in Apple Country Through the Great Depression, presents the author’s recollections during those mean years—memories of  local conditions and events, and of his family’s coping with seemingly endless setbacks in its struggles upward.    

    These memoirs, sometimes stark, sometimes poignant, sometimes touched with humor, call up thought-provoking parallels to modern events.


About the Author

Bruce L. Foxworthy authored or coauthored nine earlier books dealing with the environment and water-resources management. The best known, Volcanic Eruptions of

1980 at Mount St. Helens—The First 100 Days, written with fellow geologist Mary Hill, won

worldwide acclaim. His writings resulted from work as an earth scientist overseas in

Austria, France, and Saudi Arabia, as well as assignments in New York and throughout the Pacific Northwest.

He now lives in East Wenatchee, Washington, with his high-school sweetheart and

their camping gear.