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Carole Estby Dagg

Writing history as ordinary people lived it.

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Nancy Paulsen Books
(February 2, 2016)
304 pages
$16.99
ISBN: 978-0399172038

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Draft of Teacher’s Guide to Sweet Home Alaska

June 6, 2016 by Carole Dagg 4 Comments

Dear Educator,

From the point of view of a middle grade child, Sweet Home Alaska describes a little-known program of the New Deal: the Palmer Colony, which took two hundred and two families off public relief rolls and moved them to Alaska to become self-sufficient farmers. In the administration’s eagerness to get results, they shipped up families a year earlier than originally planned. Not only were there no houses yet, but there were not even enough tents to go around. Colonists were thrown into the wilderness and back to the age of pioneers without cleared land, houses, school, or roads. As a testament to the resilience of youth, however, most of the old-timers interviewed about their childhoods in the colony remember it as a happy time.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1930's, Alaska History, Carole Estby Dagg, Depression Era, Discussion Guide, Sweet Home Alaska, Teacher's Guide

Flour sack Research

October 18, 2015 by Carole Dagg Leave a Comment

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Yes, this was research! I bid on flour sacks on eBay and sewed an apron which I will wear for programs on Sweet Home Alaska.

When feed companies and flour mills discovered that frugal women during the Depression were using flour sacks for everything from dish towels to underwear, they started printing them with colorful patterns. Companies competed to make the most desirable patterns, and many women chose which brand of flour, sugar, rice, or feed  to buy based on which patterns they liked best. Sometimes hapless storekeepers had to shift twenty sacks of feed to locate matching flour sacks so there would be enough to complete a dress or tablecloth.

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