Homestead: Memoir of Great Depression Recounts Self-sufficiency of the Era

Many of the harsh realities of the Great Depression come to life in George MacClanahans Homestead. While the times we live in have material advantages over yesteryear, the fundamental virtues of responsibility, accountability, family relationships, and plain old American soul rarely predominate in modern times, as they do in this uplifting biography.

George MacClanahan's Homestead is being released on June 14, Flag Day, in an expressive recognition of the ingenuity and know-how that have for generations been intrinsic to the American psyche.

The harsh realities of the not-so-distant past come to life in George MacClanahans Homestead where fundamental themes of responsibility, accountability, family relationships, and plain old American soul ring true.

While Spud Murphys father shepherds his family through the painful process of growing up on a homestead and constructing a home with inadequate resources, we witness the all-too-frequent abyss that can develop between fathers and sons. Symbolically, as the homestead comes together, Spud Murphys relationship with his father deteriorates.

Homestead is a gritty, captivating account of childhood, adolescence, and evolution during the Great Depression, seen through the eyes of one who lived it. Laced with simple eloquence and drawn with tools forged from bittersweet experience, George MacClanahans account will make you laugh, cry, and curse. But most importantly, it will inspire gratitude, joy, and an awesome respect for those who came before us and shaped America during one of the darker yet more fertile periods in her history. MacClanahan provides an inspiring and uplifting message for the reader, and he does it with a humility, charm, and character that entertains and inspires.

George MacClanahan, Homestead, $22.00, ISBN #1-58982-069-X.

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