Money was hard to come by in the early 1930s and it was getting close to Easter time.
I knew that I had plenty of eggs to boil for the children’s Easter egg hunt, and I could use beet juice and other juices to color, but I wanted to get them some candy eggs. It would be such a treat for them and they didn’t ask for much.
Then I happened to think-I had just taken 30 baby rabbits away from their mothers. I wondered if I could sell them for Easter bunnies.
I got busy and made a nice sign and put it out by the road in front of the house. I put the price at 75 cents. I was surprised. In three days I had sold them all! $10.50! Wow, I felt like the richest woman in town. That was a lot of money in those days.
I was not only able to get some candy for the children but was able to buy things we might not have had for our Easter dinner.
Evelyn Williams-Hall
Sioux City, Iowa
Back in 1955 a call went out from the editors of the then Capper’s Weekly asking for readers to send in articles on true pioneers. Hundreds of letters came pouring in from early settlers and their children, many now in their 80s and 90s, and from grandchildren of settlers, all with tales to tell. So many articles were received that a decision was made to create a book, and in 1956, the first My Folks title – My Folks Came in a Covered Wagon – hit the shelves. Nine other books have since been published in the My Folks series, all filled to the brim with true tales from Capper’s readers, and we are proud to make those stories available to our growing online community.
