| ...friends, has life got you down? Are you in debt that you don't know how to get out of? Is your marriage spiraling down toward divorce? A thing so bad you could even consider suicide? Well before you do anything rash. "Dig This," in the words of The Main Ingredient, 1971: it could be worse. You could also be in North Carolina, where we are going to find out about people for whom this was the case. In a book called "Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce and Debt in Civil War era North Carolina." It's written by our guest today, David Silkenat, on Civil War Talk Radio." |