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=Our Heritage=

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life." -//The Great Gatsby//, p. 2.

by Toni Morrison
"Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen peal was not the Enemy and not worth of such intense hatred. The //Thing// to fear was the //Thing// that made //her// beautiful, and not us." -//The Bluest Eye//, p. 74. The Guess Who American Woman

by John Steinbeck
"During the Dust Bowl Era, three generations of the Joad family set out on the road, seeking a decent life in fertile California and joining thousands of others bound by an experience that transforms them from "I" to "we" (p. 152)." [|Full Article]

The Final Scene in The Grapes of Wrath
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Grandson of Bettie** Bettie Gull lived with her parents, Bill and Fredella Hill and an older brother Bill on a farm between Oxford and Edison, Nebraska in Furnas County during the early 1930's....They drove a horse and buggy to school and the brother fed and shed the horse on the school grounds where they attended school. Their home was a two-stories with a basement. It had no electricity so kerosene lamps were used for light. There was a wood-burning stove in the kitchen to cook on. There also was a floor furnace between the living room and the dining room, which produced some heat. In fact, when the baby pigs were born their father used to bring them in out of the cold and warm them up on a tarp over the floor furnace. The house was modern in that it had an indoor bathroom rather than an outhouse.... [|Their Story]
 * Bettie Gull, Dust Bowl Days & the Flood of 1935**
 * by Zackary Schilz - McCook, NE

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