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    Between the Corn Rows: Stories of an Iowa Farm Family’s Survival in the Great Depression
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    Between the Corn Rows: Stories of an Iowa Farm Family’s Survival in the Great Depression

    By Robert Seltz

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    The Schaub family purchased a farm in northwest Iowa in the mid 1930s. The worst of the Great Depression was ebbing, but the bad economy still had plenty of bite and a world war loomed.

    Werner and his wife, Laura, mustered all the money they could to buy their own place; once they had it, they did everything they could to make a living. Their children chipped in, but they also managed to find adventure around every corner. Meanwhile, a tempestuous Mother Nature complicated their lives with violent winds and black dust storms.

    The church, generally a rock of support for the community, became unbending at times. World War II improved grain markets but took many sons away from the farms. The Schaub family stuck together, but financial insecurity lurked in the shadows.

    Getting land, paying for it, and making a living were tough in the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. Even so, the Schaubs never gave up as they tried to find the good life Between the Corn Rows.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateAug 2, 2012
    ISBN9781475938562
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    Between the Corn Rows: Stories of an Iowa Farm Family’s Survival in the Great Depression
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    Robert Seltz

    ROBERT SELTZ was born and raised on an Iowa farm. He received a master of sacred theology degree from Union Seminary in New York City and served as a Lutheran pastor in Michigan and Ohio, revisiting the farm every summer. He and his wife, Janet, currently live in Phoenix, Arizona, and have five children and six grandchildren.

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      This is a sweet narrative in the storyteller tradition of an Iowa farm family through the depression and WWII. The author was our pastor for many years, so it was a treat to read his "voice" again since he retired about 15 years ago. Reading through the story, it became clear why he was so good at facilitating community life withing the congregation. It was bred in his bones.