The Story

For nearly two years ‘The Help’ has been on bestseller lists across the country. It’s a fictional account of African-American maids and their white employers in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 60’s. Today, Dick talks with Alma Cousin who was a real-life maid in Jackson at that time, along with Elizabeth Hays, one of the white children she cared for.Also: Wholly Cow Custard.

We visit another fixture of major cities -- rooftop water tanks. Meet some of the people who repair the iconic structures.

Kevin Chandler is a former state legislator with a new job: he is rehabbing foreclosed homes. He works with a friend from high school - a furloughed pilot - to bring the homes up to code. He says that when he first walks into a home, there is almost always a wall punched in near the bedroom, testament to the stress the former owners were under.

In 1987, Jack Bouroudjian was a first year trader on Wall Street. As things started to go sour on "Black Monday", Jack was making money, buying at bargain prices. Then he took one look at the faces of the older traders and he knew this was not your typical "buy low, sell high" scenario. Then, to the crash of 1929 - a woman remembers how her family become homeless during The Great Depression. Also on the show: Freda Aron turns 93.