Mary Jo Helen Thomas - Wold is an American Author who was raised in Arkansas and traveled to California during the Great Depression in the 1930's.

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She has written three memoirs about this experience, The First, Little Annie Poot, is about her life as a young girl up to age 7 in Arkansas.

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It is a vibrant account of family stories told in the vernacular of the day and is a wonderful insight in a piece of American history, that no one other than she, who lived through it, can tell.

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