This 1933 photo of the CCC’s Camp Temecula is one of many available from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Museum and Library. The library’s Franklin database of public domain images is a great resource for someone wanting a look at the 1930s and more.

Food. Fuel, pleasure, and sometime one more key helpful in unlocking a character’s life.

Writing Hitch, I’d have missed something important if I hadn’t considered it. This is a story set during the hungry years of the Great Depression, and for young me...