Saturday, 28 September 2013
The Dust Bowl info
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major
damage to American lands in the 1930s. The storms caused by severe drought
combined with a failure to apply dry land farming methods to prevent wind
erosion. Many families were forced to leave their farms and travel to other areas seeking work because of the drought.
"I was born in 1933, so I have no memory of the dust storms. However, I do remember my parents talking about them. They said they would wet rags to stuff around the windows and yet in the morning they had to sweep the house out. My mother said she would wet tea towels and drape them over my crib when she put me to bed at night. In the morning you could see the outline of my body on the crib sheets.
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
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