As agriculture in the “Bootheel” section of Missouri’s collapsed in the early years of the great depression, sharecroppers sank into increasingly primitive living conditions as the land yielded less, ...

Harry D. Sordoni was killed inside his Lehman Township farmhouse on July 19, 1930. Picture published in the Times Leader July 21, 1930. Within 14 hours spanning two days in July 1930, farmer Harry D.

Memories of my childhood at the farm on Beaver Valley Road began before my parents bought the farm. Floyd Jr., Mary and Bill were in school, so I went with Mom and Dad on the search for “farms for ...