The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Date and Time: September 10, 2018, 7:00 PM CT
Location:
Eisenhower Foundation, 200 SE 4th St, Abilene
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From the TALK series, The 1930s
Discussion Leader: Margy Stewart
Egan describes the first of the new storms that would come to define the Dust Bowl: "Wasn't a sandstorm . . . . And it wasn't a hailstorm, though it certainly brought with it a dark, threatening sky . . . It rolled, like a mobile hill of crud, and it was black." Egan provides a masterful overview of the dust storms and their consequences for agriculture and people on the Great Plains. 312 pp. (2006)
Sponsored by: Eisenhower Foundation
For more information about this event, please contact:
Pamela Sanfilippo
(785) 263-6754
http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.net