MANKATO — Some might have considered them luxury items, what with it being the Great Depression. As 98-year-old Evelyn Ellingboe Horwath remembers it, her family’s Maytag washing machine, Singer ...
The 1930s are remembered as one of the toughest eras in American History. The nation was in disarray, banks were shuttered, unemployment had skyrocketed, and food was scarce. We call it the Great ...