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Weld County Fair11-06-09 Remember the Dust Bowl…Agriculture’s Triumph Over It…Dust Bowl Poetry…
Posted by Brian Allmer on November 6, 2009
**Shelley Shaver, author of Dust Bowl Poetry Webpage will be a guest inside the BARN on Friday, November 6th @ 1:30pm…Check out the interview, click the mp3 link below…
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Because of their interest in farming, your audience might enjoy hearing about a new resource that claims a position for the American farmer in American literature.
This is a new webpage, free, updated daily, and easily accessible, which will eventually be linked as the first guest artist page of the official Horton Foote website–Mr. Foote, as you know, was one of our most honored western writers, the Pulitzer Prize winning screenplay writer of such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies.
The new webpage is an unfolding epic story of a period in agricultural history that has received too little attention nationally, so we are looking for channels to extend the invitation to visit. The work is by a new writer, whose grandparents were cotton farmers. It is the epic story of Riah McKenna, a young farm woman who, along with her family, is struggling to survive the Dust Bowl. Uniquely, each day the author will put up a new “mini-episode” of this ongoing story of family, friends, and hard times.
This webpage offers an opportunity for you audience members to reflect on the issues raised by those difficult Dust Bowl years. Moreover, it offers an opportunity to interact with the author as the story unfolds, because she will be visiting the blog frequently as it starts up. A special blog session with your audience is a possibility.
It is a proud part of our history that the people of that era created their personal identities at a time of such anguish. Their determination, their marriages and friendships, and even their sense of humor deserve to be known to a wider audience.
The link is not yet up, and at present the only place to access this new work is:
http://dustbowlpoetry.wordpress.com
RELATED STORIES & INFORMATION:
Check out the Rocky Mountain PBS website for more specifically to the Dust Bowl here in Colorado…CLICK HERE
Shelley said
Brian, as the author of the webpage above, I really like your use of the word “triumph” to refer to the thirties. Those were hard years, but farmers survived them. I wonder if any of your listeners know people who lived through that? Also your listeners might be interested to learn that Ken Burns, the PBS Civil War documentary film director, is currently doing research for a film on the Dust Bowl!