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Henderson, Aileen Kilgore, 1921-
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Henderson, Aileen Kilgore, 1921-
Kilgore family.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Alabama -- Brookwood (Tuscaloosa County)
Families.
Manners and customs.
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Henderson, Aileen Kilgore, 1921-
Henderson, Aileen Kilgore, 1921-
Kilgore family.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Alabama -- Brookwood (Tuscaloosa County)
Families.
Manners and customs.
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When
the
wolf
camped
at
our
door
:
my
childhood
in the
Great
Depression
/ Aileen Kilgore Henderson.
by
Henderson, Aileen Kilgore, 1921-
The University of Alabama Press, c2022.
Call #:
973.91092 H496w
Subjects
Henderson, Aileen Kilgore, 1921-
Kilgore family.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Alabama -- Brookwood (Tuscaloosa County)
Families.
Manners and customs.
ISBN:
9780817321338
Alternate title:
My
childhood
in the
Great
Depression
Description:
125 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Oscar meets an ottomobeel -- Alma's dime -- Friends again -- Mama prevents murder -- Ichabod gets lost -- Home remedies -- Summer of decision -- Thanksgiving day -- Mary Alice goes into business -- Miss know-it-all -- Summer nights after supper -- The Howton Horror -- Shangri-la -- Aileen falls by the wayside -- A visit from the Detroit cousins -- The KKK checks up on Big Hurricane Baptist --
Depression
wedding -- Uncle Joe and the King of England -- Virgie's grandmother -- Granny Price's birthday celebration -- Mrs. Prude and her sons -- Belle -- Teensy's family -- Uncle Nat helps raise a submarine -- Aileen discovers football -- A movie star thrill -- Magic at the new Bama Theatre.
Summary:
Aileen Kilgore Henderson was born in 1921 in a mining camp that no longer exists. After her father lost his job, the family moved to a small farm in nearby Brookwood, Alabama, where they struggled to make ends meet, cobbling together odd jobs and working the land by hand.
When
The
Wolf
Camped
at
Our
Door
recounts the difficulties and joys the Kilgore family and their neighbors shared in this poor but close-knit rural community during the
Great
Depression
. The book begins
when
young Aileen is ten years old and follows her into her teenage years over the course of twenty-seven episodic chapters. Drawing on her girlhood diaries and told through the charismatic voice of her younger self, Henderson's nuanced storytelling sheds light on the common struggle for sustenance during a time
when
people were at their most vulnerable. Against the backdrop of a world where hard work and harsh conditions like hunger, privation, sickness, and early death were everyday realities, Henderson's stories are nevertheless tinged with young Aileen's lively sense of humor and optimistic faith in people and the promise of life despite trying circumstances. We follow her rambles in the woods, her visits with friends, a trip to a fortune teller, and search for the Howton Horror, a mysterious monster rumored to live deep in the Alabama backwoods. We meet her parents, siblings, schoolmates, visiting relatives, church community, and a host of other local characters-even an uncomfortable visit from the KKK during a church service. Gradually Aileen's
childhood
innocence is tempered by a more nuanced recognition of the complexities of her world. Henderson underscores this point with a series of questions meant to engage the reader at the end of her introduction which would be useful in a classroom discussion or a book club. Set before her final coming of age described in The World through the Dime Store
Door
,
When
the
Wolf
Camped
at
Our
Door
creates a vivid portrait of what life was like for many living in the rural South during the
Depression
and provides context for their everyday lives.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
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