Old Sins Have Long Shadows: Young Life in the Poorhouse in East Texas, 1930

By Lovey Smitham

Martha is 16, deserted by her desperate mother, at the gate of the Poorhouse in East Texas in 1930, promising to return for her when she can financially support her or when and if her father, who rode away on a freight train looking for work, ever comes back. For five years she survives the frightening ordeal of life inside and outside of a poorhouse farm. This is her story. She does meet the love of her life as well as friends who will open doors of opportunity after 1935 when all poorhouses close theirs, with the advent of the Social Security Act under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1977088988
• ISBN13: 9781977088987
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"