Tuesday,
November 27, 2012, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and
a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression by Ted
Gupp.
“Shortly
before Christmas 1933 in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, a small newspaper ad
offered $10, no strings attached, to 75 families in distress. Interested
readers were asked to submit letters describing their hardships to a benefactor
calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author's grandfather Sam Stone was inspired
to place this ad and assist his fellow Cantonians as they prepared for the
cruelest Christmas most of them would ever witness.” Amazon.com
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