Meet Lucy JeanneAuthor Since: 2009-03-24 15:46:51Lucy Jeanne is a full-time writer, mother of two, grandmother of six. After decades in Marketing, Sales and Special Event Planning, she has been working with a four-generation family team for the last year to complete their website, DearDaddy.com. The website chronicles the daily life of her grandparents, mother and uncle during two years of the Great Depression. Their story is told in letters, her mother’s journal, photos, drawings, recipes and books they read to each other. |
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In her 80s, Martha Linsley bought a small typewriter from Montgomery Ward, taught herself to type, and transcribed the hundreds of letters she and her husband and their two children wrote to one another.
It was the Great Depression in rural Minnesota. From her small cabin with no utilities, Martha Linsley, a certified teacher, fought school district administrators for the right to home-school her two children. Defending her gifted son, who would eventually be nominated for a Nobel Physics Prize, she was threatened with fines – and even jail time.
