The reenactment of “Hooverville,” hosted by the Amherst Historical Society on Sept. 6, gave visitors a taste of what it was like during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. For the third year in a row, ...

In Mr. Renfer’s English class the sixth grade students read the classic, Bud, Not Buddy, a story of an orphaned boy at the time of the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, many families lost ...

A Rock Island Hooverville grew out of a former shantytown created by hobos in the 1920s along the banks of the Mississippi River. Hoovervilles were forming coast to coast during the Great Depression ...

Students in Mr. James Renfer’s sixth grade English class have been very busy reading the novel, “Bud, Not Buddy,” by Christopher Paul Curtis. The setting of the story is the Depression of the 1930s.