... to eat during the winter. They had one car and one truck for transportation, along with a tractor, plow and mule for the farming. My grandma remembered during harvest season that some Mexican families would come and live in three small houses on the land. The Mexicans would help her father harvest ... did remember that her parents helped out the neighboring families that were not as fortunate as they were. One significant sign of hard times for my grandma was she remembered one of her brothers having to come home from college because her parents could not afford the expense after the Gre...

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... worth in the first two years. Ridiculed by intellectuals, paint-by-number was widely accepted by the American public, as was the growing popularity of folk art. Artists such as Grandma Moses assured the American public that "anyone can paint if they want to." Paint-by-number, amateur artists and the mass marketing of prints helped to demystified art by making ... it more accessible to the consumer. The definition of art changed as the public accepted the "realism" of artists like Grandma Moses and rejected intellectuals and the New York avant-garde. Clearly, most Americans did not have ...

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... caught in, and readily expressed their desire to avoid being chained to the stove or washer, prisoners of social ideals in their own homes, "on more than one occasion I offended (Grandma) by telling her that to her face." The job my grandmother eventually got did little to elevate her daughter's perception of society's influence on women. "Even though she had a job ... role of the housewife. Now working double duty as a mother and a member of the work force, the working housewife was forced to devote her weekends to housework. "It seemed like (Grandma) never did any interesting things, ...

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... Berger, John. "Hiroshima. " Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing. Ed. Karen S. Henry. Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2013. 236-242. Print. Hardy, Zoe Tracy. "What Did You Do In The War, Grandma? " Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing. Ed. Karen S. Henry. Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2013. 210-219. Print....

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... , the Army, education, et al. The 1950's were a time for complacency and Jews were especially sensitive, in light of the Rosenbergs' spy case and others like them, about creating waves. Grandma Zelda shamefully admitted later that she was interviewed about a Syracuse University professor living on their street by an FBI agent, and she noted that "they did not have a TV antenna ... ...

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