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Leo Hart: The School for Dust Bowl Refugees

“The people in flight from the terror behind had strange things happen to them:  some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that their faith is refired forever.” – John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath Leo Hart refired faith. Maybe Leo Hart, Superintendent of Kern County Schools in the 1930’s, developed his own faith growing up in rural […]