To read the recollections of Katherine McIntosh is to travel to another
time of economic privation, and realize that however bad things are
now, they were far worse then. McIntosh, now a senior citizen, was four
years old when the photographer Dorothea Lange took pictures of her
family as part of a WPA project documenting life in the migrant farm
camps during the Great Depression.
McIntosh now works as a housecleaner in California, and says she's proud she to be employed and sheltered
-- two necessities that must have seemed like luxuries when she and her
six siblings lived in tent cities or beat-up cars, going to school only
sporadically, and enduring the taunts of better-off children when they
did.
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