The First Hundred Years Are the Hardest: A Memoir is the story of Barbara's life as a member of the Silent Generation. Highlights of getting through life and the high jinks along the way provide a look at what it was like to be a child of the Forties, a teen in the Fifties, an adult in the Sixties and, always, a woman struggling to make sense of life in a man's world. Barbara's journey began in a share cropper's shack on Texas' High Plains and ended...