Title: COAL & COCA-COLA: Small Town USA 1949 (Short True Story w/Photos) (Visceral History)
Author: Linda G. Shelnutt (KINDLE GLOW BOOKS)
Price: FREE
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (5)
I have always admired my mother’s bull dog determination as a divorced, single woman supporting herself and two kids through a business of her own as a professional baker. Against various types of odds for a woman in 1949, when my brother was around five years old, and I was two, our mother, Marge Hudnall, borrowed $ 6,000 from a local bank in her small town of Florence, Colorado (around 3,000 population at that time), opened a bakery, and repaid the loan in two years.

Through that…