“In the 1930’s, Jay went to open the banks door, they needed money to pay the cotton pickers on their small farm.
The door was locked and and a hand hung a sign in the window that said “This Bank is Closed”.
It was rough on them, one baby died, there was not a choice of foods or medicines available to feed it.
Jay finally had to ask for gov food and was told “NO, not until you eat the cow”......which they needed to keep the other baby alive, as Mary’s diet did allow her to produce milk.”
I think that you would like the movie “The Southerner” about a sharecropper family of the 1930s.
http://www.amazon.com/Southerner-Zachary-Scott/dp/B00000IO3T
Welcome to the thread.
Thank you for the movie suggestion, I think I would understand it.
When Mary told me what had happened to her and Jay that day, we were standing in front of the old bank building, it is on what they made into a mall, in the old portion of Yuma.
Or that is what it was 35 years ago, I haven’t been back in about 30 years.
I have their horse drawn cultivator in my yard, moved it up here, as I knew Mary had liked using it on the farm.