Opinion Column: Picking oranges plucks story from Great Depression
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…
