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The Penny Drive in the Depression
Grace Cawdallukas was a young mother with two small children during the Great Depression. She would ride that horse, carriage trails, mud holes, going back up into these haulers. By 1937, they'd gotten 60,000 books. The librarians would go through ragged magazines and dilapidated books. They cannibalize them, deconstruct and remix them to create new scrapbooks.