In the United States, in the year 1929, the Great Depression
wrought severe financial crisis and hardship throughout the land.
Even those previously rich awakened to meet monetary repression
and ate from soup lines, while others, too proud in them to stand,
leapt from a skyscraper, their mind’s last decision and command.
In the state of Ohio, the then tiny farming town of Westerville
is today one of the largest suburbs of Columbus, Ohio’s capitol city.
Life there continued normally in 1929, escaping the Depression, until
in late November, 1931, it finally hit the town and it wasn’t pretty,
but Westerville’s town fathers in no way simply wallowed in pity.
Beset with a multitude of problems, their local bank topped the list,
as The Bank of Westerville had run drastically short of cash
and Ohio’s banking superintendent shut it down with an iron fist,
becoming one of 5,000 US banks failing from the Depression’s bash.
But the town of 2,900 needed a bank, if it was to survive the crash.
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