By Samantha Lombard, 2018
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In this piece, OHMA student Samantha Lombard’s Grandmother, Barbara Stone, recalls her memories of the rationing system in the U.S. during World War II. In particular, she describes finding a rare sale on nylon stockings with her family when she was about eight-years-old.

 Samantha Lombard is from Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College with Bachelor’s degrees in History and the History of Art and Architecture in 2016. Samantha’s OHMA thesis uses oral history narrative to tell a nuanced story of a Yiddish-speaking immigrant neighborhood in Boston in the early to mid-twentieth century.