The author, Norma Jean Richards Yount, lived the "Golden Years" 1937-1942 during the Great Depression, from age 5 until she was 11, in the small gold mining camp of Goldroad, Arizona on Historic Route 66. She will never forget the experiences she shared with family and friends--memories so vivid and deep they would last a lifetime. Memories and experiences of ordinary people doing ordinary things in their everyday lives which developed and molded the values that she lived by and then was able to instill in the nurturing of her daughters and their children. The author's purpose in sharing these memories is her desire to show how imperfect people, who live in an imperfect world, who honor their commitments in their everyday lives by doing the ordinary mundane things required of them, will produce posterity who will also honor their commitments in their imperfect world.