Benjamin
The street musician who won over my Grandmother
Benjamin was proud of his ability to pull his family through the Great Depression.
When most families scraped to get by, he used his woodworking skills, working in a casket factory, to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. In 1935, his employer began deducting Social Security from his paycheck; something he grumbled about many years later.
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