== The Great Depression? == 

 I'm reading the first book aloud to a friend of mine over Skype and forgive me if I'm mistaken but I don't remember it mentioning Katniss' dad growing up during the Great Depression. That would imply that humans invented "hovercrafts" (the flying kind, not the sort that skim over sea and sand), and built the Capitol, and fought the First Rebellion of the Dark Days, all before 1935? I think that edit is wrong and should be taken out, yes.