PBS 'The Dustbowl'

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Anyone else seen this? It's by Ken Burns, who does some awesome work. We're working our way through it right now from Netflix. To see the 8+ teams of mules tilling up the soil, and the fence lines that could be walked over is a sight. There were rabbit roundups, and a government program to buy cattle to just mass kill in a pit and bury. It's amazing what one never learns in school. This is why whenever I come across someone that was alive during it I always ask them about their experiences. I met a woman last week who her and her 13 siblings all survived to adulthood after living through it. Amazing times, that's for sure.
 
I haven't seen this one but I want to.
My now deceased grandmother, aunts and uncles told horrendous stories of their lives in Nolan County Texas during the dustbowl era.
And yeah, jackrabbits were a plague during good years and bad. One of my uncles out there raised red top sorghum and the jacks could devastate it in a couple of nights in it's early growth stage. Even when I was about 12-13, you could walk thru his fields right before dark and shoot them till your arms couldn't raise the rifle or shotgun anymore. IIRC, County paid a bounty for each pair of ears.
 
The history cahnnel had a documentary called the Black Blizzard a while back. Really was intersting
 
Very interesting documentary. Those were some hard times. Lots of folks died or had lifelong complications from the dust getting in their lungs also. Especially young children and the elderly.
 
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I show it in my Ag History class I teach each semester, and the students have a worksheet to go with it (even my students that take my online class have to watch it). We (my college) bought it so I can use it. It is a great show, can bring tears to your eyes and make you appreciate all we have today.
If you like that one, you should see the Civilian Conservation Corps one that PBS does; also very good about putting the country back on track with the New Deal and establishing our national parks! We show that one in my class too! I love teaching agriculture!
 
My father worked in CCC way back before I was even a gleam in his eye. Cutting logs and skinning the bark off to make utility poles for the REA projects. Somewhere around Fort Collins Colo. $30/mo and most of that went back home to his family.
Somewhere, I have some pictures and a menu from their Thanksgiving Day dinner the year he was in Colo.
 
Really good book called the Worst Hard Time on the matter. While I'm a little partial as its focused on where my mother's family is from, it's a great read.
 
Bestoutwest":20j1pl52 said:
Anyone else seen this? It's amazing what one never learns in school.
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Yes and yes. I'll take non-fiction over fiction all day long. Though the old movies like "The Grapes of Wrath" with Henry Fonda are very good, nothing is as powerful as true documentation from pictures and news reports from the era.
It's really something what previous generations have often endured to get to where we are today.
 
I'll have to find it and watch it. The dust bowl is kind of a reoccurring theme for me right now. My family farmed in CA when the dust bowlers came and nearly went broke hiring people they couldn't afford to hire. We left CA in a massive drought and moved to Oklahoma and face a constant barrage of people telling us about their family ties to CA due to the dust bowl.
 
CP the city of McKinleyville, CA is also known by the name "Oklahoma On The Ocean". Between the dust bowl and the Great Depression there was a mass exodus from the South to the logging and ranching jobs in California. When we lived there everyone on our street was from Louisiana or Arkansas.
 
I looked again this morning on Netflix, and didn't see it. Yaw sure it's in their current selection, or do I have to have it sent to me?
 
Bigfoot":rez37v0a said:
I looked again this morning on Netflix, and didn't see it. Yaw sure it's in their current selection, or do I have to have it sent to me?
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I got it from the mailer ones. We only do the mailer ones b/c we usually watch documentaries or obscure movies that they don't have online.

Son of Butch":rez37v0a said:
I'll take non-fiction over fiction all day long.
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I got into a big non-fiction reading kick for awhile, but lately I've been doing a couple non-fiction books and then a fiction book just to give my mind a little break. I think if it wasn't for PBS, I wouldn't watch TV. The sitcoms and dramas are just not engaging enough and there's so many fascinating things that have already happened that it's more interesting to watch that stuff.
 
Fire Sweep Ranch":2v1qvjzc said:
Bigfoot, so a search on you tube.
Here is the dustbowl movie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMidfqiNio

The Civilian Conservation Corp is one you will have to find elsewhere. If you were my student, I could give you access.... but you do not have a college log in so I can not. Sorry
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I was referring to the Ken Burns' documentary, but I'm sure this one is pretty cool, too.
 

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