Thursday October 24 1929 is a Day that was later known as "Black Thursday". "Black Thursday" was the day a small crash occurred at the New York stock exchange. However "Black Thursday" Would turn out to be nothing compared to what awaited America and its economy on the following Tuesday. America was about to enter her darkest days the Great Depression.
Sena Peterson my great grandmother was just an eighteen-year-old young lady living on her fathers corn farm in Iowa. Far away from New York and the economic problems on Wall Street. Nevertheless, the depression and the falling prices of her farms product would soon affect her in drastic ways the depression would be a hard time for Americans.
Monday October 28, 1929. Was a very dark and gloomy day. Thousands of Black Birds landed on Wall Street. The thousand plus birds began to devour any thing they could find to eat. Nearly half of the birds never took flight again. Many of the birds died of exhaustion.
This was an ominous sign of the dark and desperate times ahead. America was about to enter its lowest and darkest point in its short history.
My great grandma lived on her farm in Iowa oblivious to the fact that her life would soon be changing in drastic ways. Sh
Things began to look a lot worse for the Peterson's my great grandmother's father came down with tuberculoses. The whole Peterson family had to move to Colorado so he could get treatment. My great grandmother ended up working in a Levi's factory to help pay medical bills as well as her mother. Her brothers worked in other various factories.
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