Opinion Column: Picking oranges plucks story from Great Depression

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By Dink NeSmith on Thursday, December 1, 2022
  • Farmers have discovered that South Georgia’s mild climate is suitable for growing sweet, easy-to-peel Satsuma oranges. Our three trees have thrived next to a pine plantation. (Dink NeSmith/The Oglethorpe Echo)
    Farmers have discovered that South Georgia’s mild climate is suitable for growing sweet, easy-to-peel Satsuma oranges. Our three trees have thrived next to a pine plantation. (Dink NeSmith/The Oglethorpe Echo)

    Circa 1935.

     

    Soup kitchens.

     

    Bread lines.

     

    Unemployment almost 25%.

     

    The Great Depression had America’s stomach gnawing on its backbone. Jobs were hard to come by, but the two youthful…