The Huckstering Hankins Family

When I was growing up, every now and then, my Dad (Philip Charles Hankins) would talk about his childhood in Collegeville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. One story he mentioned (more than once) was that he and his brother Ralph sold produce from the farm to their neighbors during the depression. I had the impression that it was the two of them an little red wagon going from house to house! Last night, I found a copy of a Class of 1948 newsletter for Collegeville-Trappe High School in Trappe, Pennsylvania likely from late winter/early spring of 2004. Apparently my Dad had emailed a classmate, Gene Pressler, to ask a question about someone who played basketball for the school in 1945! Gene looped another classmate, Jerry Wien, into the conversation - and away they went reminiscing about growing up in Collegeville. ]]]Suddenly my Dad started writing about selling produce during the depression! And I finally have a better picture of what happened. I'll just share what my Dad wrote . . .…