Once Upon a Green Meadow

<p>This poignant memoir shares one woman's memories growing up between the two world wars as a member of the McMillan family a hardworking bunch who made their living on an eastern Washington farm.</p><p>In a series of vignettes Ernestine McMillan Hilton recalls the joys of small-town holiday celebrations close-knit neighbors and the events that shape the lives of the McMillans as they scratch a living from a scabland farm. With vivid detail Hilton remembers how the sweet taste of strawberry Jell-O mingled with the wonders of Election Day in 1924 when her mother had the opportunity to vote for the first time and she revisits how the end of the horse-and-buggy era gave rise to the Model T. She also relates the arrival of her baby brothers the joys of going to school and the hardships of the Great Depression.</p><p><i>Once Upon a Green Meadow</i> re-creates the charm and hardship of a rural American life that has vanished forever. But more importantly Hilton's memoir reveals how one family's love sustained them throughout the hard times.</p>