Back in My Day: Shirley Huls

  • Shirley Huls stands by the piano in the Pawnee City Assisted Living Facility. Huls learned to play the piano as a little girl in the 30s and 40s and still enjoys listening to classical music as an adult.
    Shirley Huls stands by the piano in the Pawnee City Assisted Living Facility. Huls learned to play the piano as a little girl in the 30s and 40s and still enjoys listening to classical music as an adult.
    The Great Depression is often remembered as a period fraught with struggle and difficulty. Some may even say it was the lowest point of our country in the last century. But one Pawnee City citizen remembers it a little differently.Shirley Huls, now 94 years old, may not look back at that time with rose colored glasses and a belief that the time was all sunshine and rainbows. However, she...

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