Title: A secret gift
Description: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's hidden past as well as the suffering and triumphs of strangers during the Great Depression. -- From publisher's description.
Subjects: Benevolence, Economic conditions, Large type books, Benefactors, Biography, History
Places: Ohio, Canton (Ohio), Canton
People: Samuel Stone (1887-1981)
Time periods: 20th century