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Glen Whitacre was born to tenant farmers at the start of The Great Depression. His father was an orchard foreman who was hired throughout Frederick County, Virginia and Berkeley County, West Virginia. With each new job, the family received a tenant house, a garden plot, and a dollar a day. Electricity and indoor plumbing optional. Whitacre records his childhood year by year. Local historians and genealogists will find detailed descriptions of Depression-era tenant farming, orchards, schools, farm machinery, and household equipment. He gives a window into life dependent upon communal efforts for survival, such as community canning, butchering, and bartering. Whitacre's fascination with early cameras, radios and recording equipment chronicles an age of booming technological advancements and a way of life fading from our cultural memory. Surnames: (Primarily) Whitacre, DeHaven, Haines (Also) Clark, Crumb, Flowers, Funk Guthrie, Harper, Hutton, Jameison, Jimps, Johnson (of Richmond), Joliffe, Kersey Luttrell, Munoz Noya, Sheetz, Ussery, Woodfin