Residents in Escanaba took steps to help their neighbors in the 1930s during the Great Depression but Charles Lindquist says the community struggled as the economic disaster deepened.

 

Lindquist is an author and president of the Delta County Historical Society. He is giving a free presentation Wednesday on the community effort and the programs that became overwhelmed by the enormity of the times.

 

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