Posted by MarkB_MI on February 09, 2009 at 19:37:53 from (216.234.100.14):
In Reply to: Re: O/T Farm Subsidies posted by Howard H. on February 09, 2009 at 18:47:25:
Howard,
With all due respect, if your dad was born in '29, he can hardly have many memories of the Dust Bowl.
For what it's worth, I don't remember many folks talking about the Dust Bowl when I was growing up, even though most of the adults I knew has some experience of it. My own mom and dad were born in '24 and '25, and grew up on the periphery of the Bowl, although in different states. They talked a lot about the Depression, but very little about the Dust Bowl. In retrospect, I think this was because they weren't in the middle of it, but also because I really think folks blocked it out. I can't ask them now, Dad passed over twenty years ago and Mom has Alzheimer's. I did talk briefly about it with my uncle, who is pushing 90; he would only say that it was very bad.
If you don't believe that people blocked out the bad times back then, here's something to chew on: My grandfather committed suicide in 1929. My mother did not know that he killed himself until she got a copy of his birth certificate about ten years ago. The family simply did not discuss the manner of his death.
I'm sure Egan picked out some of the worst examples of the suffering and devastation, but they were horrifying enough that I would hate to think that they were commonplace.
I used to regularly drive through Springfield, Colorado on a regular basis. Anyone familiar with the area will tell you that it is sparsely populated grassland. But in the twenties, it was productive farmland and a lot of people lived in the area. It has not returned to what it once was, even seventy years after the dust bowl ended.
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