Village Life in America

A diary of young school girls in Canandaigua, New York, during the Civil War. (Mary Elizabeth summary)

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"American Country Life" is a diary written by cards written by Caroline Cowles Richards since 1852 and later written by Edmund Clark. Rolling began at the age of ten, by the year 1872 she got married and made a family. The writer lived in the Finger Lakes district of Canandaigua in New York and lived with her grandparents Mrs. Thomas Bears and her sister Anna for 4 years. Caroline's mother died, pursued career, remarried, and had a new family, so his father sent these girls to beer. He often writes to a girl. Even with these minor facts, you will notice that nuclear families are not as stable as we thought in the past. Because it is often torn by death and children are sent to live with relatives instead of staying next to one parent.

My grandfather came from a small village in Lebanon then. His father abandoned his family and first sailed to America in his village. My grandfather settled in a new wife and children in Mississippi State and finally worked for the United States Coast Guard during World War I. The name of the city is synonymous with prosperity and embodies the American dream. After all, there is a rumor that this is the heyday of the American automobile industry and that the Midwestern industry has many employment opportunities. Here, he found a job in the illiterate immigrant - Ford's assembly line with no money or skill. It's not just a job but a work with a high salary that allows him to make a living. He sent his mother and his brother, and later, in his childhood lover