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Cleo Thoughts, Dust Bowl

Singing in Hard Times

Posted on by CleoLampos
29
Aug

The conditions of the Dust Bowl pressed the farmers and ranchers into despair. Too many days with the sun blocked out by the Black Blizzards. Fine grains of sand covering everything, including the linings of the lungs. A losing battle with locust, grasshoppers and drought that devoured any hope of a crop. Watching children lose […]

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Cleo Thoughts, Quilts

Remembering Hobos With a Code Quilt

Posted on by CleoLampos
29
Aug

“I know every engineer on every train, All of their children and all of their names, And every handout in every town…..” -Ralph Miller, King of the Road Maralyn Dettmann No one wanted to be a hobo. But choices lessened as the Great Depression of the 1930’s deepened into a decade of drought and despair. […]

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