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Weedpatch Dust Bowl Memories

Posted August 24th, 2011 at 7:39 pm (UTC-4)
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Reading about the incessant wave of 100° (F; 38° C) temperatures and terrible drought conditions that thousands of Americans living in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas have endured this summer, I got to thinking about the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl conditions that ruined the land in those very places in the 1930s and early […]

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