We'll all stop whimpering about living through the Great Recession once Mary Freitas tells us how she got her first job in 1930, at age 16, doing domestic work for $1 a day in Hartford.
That job during the Great Depression also cost her 50 cents each day for the round-trip trolley ride from her New Britain home.
Freitas, 98, still lives in New Britain and still holds firm the beliefs in hard work and accountability that carried her through the 20th century. She demands as much from others, even when someone comes to work for free at the house she built in 1949, with her now-deceased husband, "just the way we wanted it." Read More.
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