Farm families got together with neighbors at school programs, church dinners, or dances. We were all in the same boat." Neighbors helped each other through hard times, sickness, and accidents. People who grew up during the Depression said, "No one had any money. Many farm families raised most of their own food eggs and chickens, milk and beef from their own cows, and vegetables from their gardens. York County farm families didn't have heat, light or indoor bathrooms like people who lived in town. Weather touched every part of life in the "Dirty 30s": dust, insects, summer heat and winter cold. The government programs that helped them to live through the 1930s changed the future of agriculture forever. The Great Depression changed the lives of people who lived and farmed on the Great Plains and in turn, changed America.
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