"The Dustbowl" by Ken Burns on PBS.

[Dondilion]

Just could not continue watching.......too depressing!

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Just could not continue watching.......too depressing!

Just wait until the factory farmers drain the Ogallala aquifer. Then it'll be back. You'll be breathing Oklahoma dirt even in New York, sorry.

[bhunter]

That was a well done series. I had some relatives that went through the Dust Bowl period. Of course, I found the Men That Made America" much more uplifting.

[wgrr]

Every time the storms here move in from the Southwest it literally rains mud from the drought, and soot from wildfires in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The new dust bowl is already starting. NW Arkansas is 14" down on annual rainfall.

I saw the Ken Burns documentary and it was very powerful, but not as powerful as the stories my grandfather told me about the Dustbowl.

After graduating from the U of Missouri, he bought a farm 35 miles from the NE Oklahoma border. He left the area at the start of the Dustbowl and became a professor of agriculture at the U of Missouri. His family was very wealthy so he did OK and eventually moved back to his farm in Arkansas when he retired just in time for the severe droughts of the mid 50's in the Midwest. Things got better and he got to work his farm until his death in 1971. My fondest memories of childhood were the Summers I spent on Grandpa's farm.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by bhunter

That was a well done series. I had some relatives that went through the Dust Bowl period. Of course, I found the Men That Made America" much more uplifting.

Then you would no doubt like to see PBS privatized.

John