Growing Up in New Mexico 100 Years Ago

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Esther E. Gregory was born in 1914 and grew up in the bustling, rural town of Willard, New Mexico. She describes what life was like back then, such as the food they ate and where it came from, the schools, how life changed during the 1918 flu pandemic, and what social life was like in a small town. Some colorful characters lived in Willard, from the flapper to the bootlegger, and she captures their personalities. After she grew up, she married Virgil Gregory in 1939. They had three children and first lived in a section house as he worked on the railroad and then were farmers. Esther moved to California in 1954 and started college at the age of forty. She became a schoolteacher.