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- 1The Great Depression Through Long-Distance Phone Calls●Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks https://www.publicbooks.org/long-distance-talkers-the-great-depressio
Public Books has published an essay titled 'Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks,' examining how long-distance communication figured in the Depression era and what voices from that period can still tell us today. The piece is filed under history, labor, and culture, placing it in ongoing discussions about economic hardship, work, and how ordinary people's experiences are recovered from the past.
- 2Tracing Rocky Road's legend back to the Great Depression▼The stock market crash, the Great Depression & the legend of Rocky Road
Yahoo Finance examines the story that the Rocky Road dessert was created during the Great Depression, taking its name from the 'rocky road' faced by Americans after the 1929 stock market crash. The piece revisits the popular origin tale of the chocolate, marshmallow and nut treat and its place in crash-era folklore.