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Introduction (Standard, LA)Description
Kraft's family was from Missouri and moved to Standard, LA in 1918 to get away from the cold and the outbreak of influenza; they lived there for 13 years until the mill closed down and moved to Clarks, LA in 1933; she describes the buildings and who worked at each: the hotel, depot, one store and eventually a gas station, money office, doctor office, a library, lodge hall and theater, post office, barber shop, telephone office, church, school; Kraft's family lived in Stump Town of Staher classmates and the sports they did; she provides the last names of those that lived there; the names of towns surrounding Standard (Olla, Possum Ridge, Tullos); what logging jobs she remembers watching; what life life was like for the kids in school and Sunday school; the fair that came in October to LaSalle, Caldwell, Winn and Grant parishesCreator
Audrey Smith Kraft
