No place in America escaped the impacts of the Great Depression, from 1929 to 1939. Even the quiet, orchard-filled Entiat Valley of the author s boyhood suffered its cruel effects. Making Do and Hanging On Growing Up in Apple Country Through the Great Depression, presents the author s recollections during those mean years memories of local conditions and events, and of his family s coping with seemingly endless setbacks in its struggles upward. These memoirs, sometimes stark, sometimes poignant, sometimes touched with humor, call up thought-provoking parallels to modern events.