The Fifteenth Scarecrow Author:D. Susan Rutz From the back cover: During the Great Depression, Jacob Downing works long hours in his Mid-West corn fields, trying to make ends meet, His six children begin to communicate with him by creating scarecrows in the fields, which become the starting point for family legends told to the younger children by Weezy (Louise), the oldest daughter. As ... more »the Depression grows into WWII, and the family men are called to war, Weezy struggles to keep the family connected.« less