Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io
Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."
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'“The need became appalling,” the church’s pastor, Rev. George Mecklenburg, told the Minneapolis Star. In response, he created a movement called the “Organized Unemployed,” which set up a bartering system to give people work. They printed their own “scrip” currency and opened a commissary general store.
'They turned the old Central High School into a hub of activity, with a cafeteria, sewing center and even a canning factory in the basement where they turned donated cabbages into more than 30,000 pounds of sauerkraut.'
With unemployment as high as 70 percent in some parts of the state, Minnesotans responded to the crisis in unique ways.
By Sofia Barnett and Erica Pearson
The Minnesota Star Tribune
https://www.startribune.com/curious-minnesota-history-great-depression/601538634?utm_source=gift
#MeaningfulLabor #GreatDepression #Minnesota
