Catherine S. Barker (1901–1961), a native of the Midwest, lived in Batesville, Arkansas, for eleven years before relocating to Salt Lake City, Utah. She was an employee of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in the Ozarks in 1933 and 1934.J. Blake Perkins, an Ozarks native, is assistant professor and chair of history and political science at Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. He is the author of Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks.

When Depression-era social worker Catherine S. Barker’s Yesterday Today was first published in 1941, she described her federal relief clients in the rural Arkansas Ozarks as ‘people well worth knowing.’ In this new edition, editor J. Blake Perkins provides an explanation of the life and times of Barker, shedding light on her filtered perceptions of 1930s Ozarkers struggling to make ends meet. Perkins shows us that Barker, too, was a person ‘well worth knowing’ and that Yesterday Today is a book well worth reading." —Susan Young, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History

Catherine S. Barker (1901–1961), a native of the Midwest, lived in Batesville, Arkansas, for eleven years before relocating to Salt Lake City, Utah. She was an employee of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in the Ozarks in 1933 and 1934.J. Blake Perkins, an Ozarks native, is assistant professor and chair of history and political science at Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. He is the author of Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks.

When Depression-era social worker Catherine S. Barker’s Yesterday Today was first published in 1941, she described her federal relief clients in the rural Arkansas Ozarks as ‘people well worth knowing.’ In this new edition, editor J. Blake Perkins provides an explanation of the life and times of Barker, shedding light on her filtered perceptions of 1930s Ozarkers struggling to make ends meet. Perkins shows us that Barker, too, was a person ‘well worth knowing’ and that Yesterday Today is a book well worth reading." —Susan Young, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History

Catherine S. Barker (1901–1961), a native of the Midwest, lived in Batesville, Arkansas, for eleven years before relocating to Salt Lake City, Utah. She was an employee of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in the Ozarks in 1933 and 1934.J. Blake Perkins, an Ozarks native, is assistant professor and chair of history and political science at Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. He is the author of Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks.

When Depression-era social worker Catherine S. Barker’s Yesterday Today was first published in 1941, she described her federal relief clients in the rural Arkansas Ozarks as ‘people well worth knowing.’ In this new edition, editor J. Blake Perkins provides an explanation of the life and times of Barker, shedding light on her filtered perceptions of 1930s Ozarkers struggling to make ends meet. Perkins shows us that Barker, too, was a person ‘well worth knowing’ and that Yesterday Today is a book well worth reading." —Susan Young, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History