My maternal grandparents, Paul and Loretta Muller, farmed in South Dakota during the difficult years of the Dirty Thirties. They raised nine children through a time marked by drought, dust storms, crop failures, and uncertainty.
My mother shared some of their stories with me, but I wish now that I had asked more questions. So much of what they experienced disappeared with their passing. What remains are glimpses of a family that somehow kept going when life gave them plenty of reasons to give...