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I heard the wind rise,and stumbled from my bed, down the stairs,out the front door, into the yard.The night sky kept flashing,lightning danced down on its
spindly legs.
I sensed it before I knew it wascoming.I heard it,smelled it, tasted it.Dust.
While Ma and Daddy slept,the dust came,tearing up fields where the winter
wheat,set for harvest in June, Stood helpless.I watched the plants, surviving after so much drought
and so much wind, I watched them fry, or flatten, or blow away, like bits of cast off rags.
It wasn’t until the dust turned toward the house,
like a fired locomotive,and I fled,barefoot and breathless, back inside, it wasn’t until the dust hissed against the windows, until it ratcheted the roof, that Daddy awoke.
He ran into the storm,his overalls half-hooded over his
union suit.“Daddy!” I called. “You can’t stop
the dust.”
Ma told me tocover the beds,push the scatter rugs against the
doors,dampen the rags around the
windows.Wiping dust out of everything,she made coffee and biscuits, waiting for Daddy to come in.
Sometime after four,rubbing low on her back,Ma sank down into a chair at the
kitchen tableand covered her face.
They thought life was a party…
…but their dreams turned
to dust.
Here’s the story…
HOW COULD LIFE HAVE CHANGED SO
QUICKLY?
The Roaring 20s
The Age of Modernism
"It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
ENTERTAINMENT
CelebritiesBabe Ruth & Ty Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Lewis
Al “Scar Face”Capone
It all changed so quickly…
October 24, 1929
Here were all these people living in old rusted-out car bodies. ... One family ... [was] living in a piano box. This wasn't just a little section, this was maybe 10 miles wide and
10 miles long. People living in whatever theycould junk together. ..."
Destruction in the Dust Bowl
Buried by Dust
Escaping to
Nowhere
Is there any hope left?
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the
soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and
success achieved.”
~Helen Keller