Growing up in the Great Depression in Redwood Falls, Minnesota made now Boonville resident Mary Whitman grateful of what she had and the Christmases she celebrated with her family.
Whitman remembers how every Christmas the family would gather around the dining room table of their four room house. Whitman recalls how all her siblings would receive a sock of assortments of candy and fruit. Although not much in the form of what other children around the town got, Whitman loved it.
“This is what my folks could afford every Christmas,” Whitman said.
