The Way it Was 1920-1942

Brad Waddle
Softcover, 171 pgs

Dr. Waddle’s book depicts rural life in Hunt County during a time of great economic depression of this country. It details the families of Waddles, Dodsons and Taylors as they lived and died and how they helped shape and influence his life. It spans the communities of Jacobia, Neola and Black Cat Thicket while detailing mudball fights and threshing and church activities, schooldays in the one-room schoolhouses and life in the cotton field of a family struggling to make ends meet during a time when the entire nation was in an economic depression.