Search Results: Jack Hall or The School Days Of an America Boy by Robert Grant

Nebraska, U.S.. Good+. 1934. On offer is an excellent 5 year diary simply chock full of the details and minutae of a young girl growing up in the 1930's in mid-western America. The diary is a leather-bound volume measuring 5 1/2 inches by 4 1/2 inches. It contains 365 pages plus memoranda pages and covers the years 1934 through 1938. It is essentially 100% complete. The cover is in good condition and the pages are all intact. The handwriting is legible. Etta May Hale was born in 1920 and this diary records her teenage years from the time she is 13 until she is 17/18. She grew up in the Great Depression and Nebraska was hard hit in that economic catastrophe. Etta May married and moved at some point to Denver CO where, as Etta May Russell, she passed away in 1995 at 74 years of age. It would be tempting to suggest that she married one of the boys she mentions in the book, Jean Russell, but obituary records indicate that he married someone else and never left his hometown of Weston, MO.… Read More