First off, thank you for this excellent thread. When I was young, my grandpa and two great uncles used to tell us younger guys stories of living during the depression. The most memorable was about a pen that they built and hid behind a hay stack. During off season they would take out their dogs and gunny sacks, the dogs would bay the skunk till they got there, they said the trick was to get the skunk running with its tail up, run up behind it and grab by tail and put in sack to take home and put it in the pen. Back then, they had a lot of rabbits, so they fed the skunks rabbits until winter. Skunk furs were worth more than a working man could make in a week or month, I can’t remember the exact details. They also said it was important to not let the skunk touch its front feet to its back feet. Once, one of my uncles received a dose in the eye. Said it was most painful thing he had ever felt. They have been gone for over 20 yrs. How I would like to hear some of those stories from them again. So one time out running taps before work I lined a skunk out in a wheat field running with his tail up, I decided to try it.. Well at the last second I chickened out, but I did run right over the top of him. and I kept running…

It was raining former rich men from the skyscrapers in many US cities. Not all the rich did well and some poor men got rich from the opportunities created by the depression. Those who are smart, who can adapt, do well during a crisis.

Keith