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During this final volume (1926-1931) of the "Lillian's Diaries" triology the financial well-being of the U.S. is slowly eroding until it culminates with the Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. Lillian's life is impacted, not so much by the financial decline of the country, but by the decline of her own health and several traumatic events within her family.

World War I is over, the boys have returned home and life goes on for Lillian Trudgian and her family in Galena, Illinois. Illness, hospitalization, engagement, marriage, a big sale, all impact this family and their friends and family in Lillian's actual 1920-1925 diaries. As in the first volume of "Lillian's Diaries: Whispers From Galena's Past," hundreds of surnames are indexed in the book for genealogists researching the northern Illinois area.

Imagine the joy of visiting an ancestral home and discovering diaries describing your family, a town, and a country from 1913 through 1931. This Eureka! experience befell Sheryl Jones at her great-great grandparents' home in Galena, Illinois, a river port town sustained in the early 20th century by its booming lead-mining industry. The diaries were the work of young Lillian Trudgian, the editor's third cousin once removed. This edition of Lillian's Diaries: Whispers from Galena's Past is an expansive and fascinating history of the Trudgian family, their neighbors and the everyday pattern of...