Since we are in the Thanksgiving and Christmas Season, I am going to try to describe what Christmas was like and how we celebrated the Christmas Season here in the Hill Country during the later days of 1929 thru 1940, during the Great Depression. At the time, I thought that our families were sort of at the low end of the totem pole as for as wealth was concerned but as I got older, I discovered that about 95% of the area population suffered the same hard times. Thanksgiving and Christmas was al ...