Section 4: Resources

Dustbowl Exhibit Site Support Notebook, Section 4: Resources

Books for Adult Readers
Readings for Younger Audiences
Related Websites
Classroom Resources
Films
Exhibit Panels
Exhibit Panel Dimensions
Exhibit Script
Orientation Webinar Archive

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Books About Exhibition Themes for Adult Readers

Diaries, Memoirs, Biographies, First-Hand Accounts:

Babb, Sanora. On the Dirty Plate Trail. University of Texas Press, 2007.

Davidson, James Alfred. Patches on My Britches: Memories of Growing up in the Dust Bowl. 1^st Books Library, 1998.

Hudson, Lois Phillips. Reapers of the Dust: A Prairie Chronicle. Minnesota Historical Society, 1964.

Low, Ann Marie. Dust Bowl Diary. University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Revard, Carter. Winning the Dust Bowl. University of Arizona Press, 2001.

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela, ed. Waiting on the Bounty: The Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck. University of Iowa Press, 2005.

Rutland, Robert Allen. A Boyhood in the Dust Bowl, 1926-1934. University Press of Colorado, 1995.

Turner, Alvin O. ed., Letters From the Dust Bowl. University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Economic Conditions:

Bonnifield, Paul. The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression. The University of New Mexico Press, 1979.

Hull, William. The Dirty Thirties: Tales of the Nineteen Thirties During Which Occurred a Great Drought, a Lengthy Depression and the Era Commonly Called the Dust Bowl Years. W.H. Hull, 1989.

Hurt, Douglas. Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century. Ivan R. Dee, 2002.

Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. Harper & Row, 1963.

Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Oxford University Press, 1979.

Wunder, John R., Francis W. Kaye, and Vernon Carstensen, eds., Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience. University Press of Colorado, 1999.

Environmental Conditions:

Blouet, Brian W. and Frederick C. Luebke. The Great Plains: Environment and Culture. University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

Cunfer. Geoff. On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment. Texas A&M University Press, 2005.

Lookingbill, Brad. Dust Bowl USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941. The Ohio University Press, 2001.

Sears, Paul. Deserts on the March. University of Oklahoma Press, 1935.

Sherow, James Earl. A Sense of the American West. An Anthology of Environmental History. University of New Mexico, Press, 1998.

Worster, Donald. The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Historical Geography:

Berglund, Lee. Wheat Belt Route: Wichita Northwestern: The Story of the Dust Bowl Railroad. South Platte Press, 1998.

Johnson, Vance. Heaven’s Tableland: The Dust Bowl Story. Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947.

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas. University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Svobida, Lawrence. Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas. University Press of Kansas, 1986.

Migrant Labor:

Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Shindo, Charles J. Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination. University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Stein, Walter J. California and the Dust Bowl Migration. Greenwood Press, 1973.

Social Conditions:

Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Hurt, R. Douglas. The Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and Social History. Nelson-Hall, 1981.

McElvaine, Robert S. The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Yancey, Diane. Life During the Dust Bowl. Lucent Books, 2004.

Fiction:

Babb, Sanora. Whose Names Are Unknown. University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.

Johnson, Josephine W. Now in November. Simon and Schuster, 1934.

Lanham, Edwin. The Stricklands. Little Brown, 1939.

Mick, Lee. Below the Horizon. Author House, 2005.

Peery, Janet. What the Thunder Said. St. Martin’s Press, 2007.

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Viking Press, 1939.

Williams, Jeanne. The Longest Road. St. Martin’s Press, 1993.

Wright, Barbara. Plain Language. Touchstone, 2003.

Photography:

Curtis, James. Mind’s Eye, Mind’s Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered. Temple University Press, 1989.

Duncan, Dayton and Ken Burns. The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History. Chronicle Books, 2012.

Ganzel, Bill. Dust Bowl Descent. University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Lange, Dorothea and Paul S. Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939.

Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. Chronicle Books, 2013.

Rothstein, Arthur. The Depression Years. Dover Publications, 1978.

Music:

Bell, Judy and Nora Guthrie, ed. Woody Guthrie Songs. Ludlow Music, 1994.

Guthrie, Woody. This Land is Your Land. Little, Brown, 1998.

Guthrie, Woody, Harold Leventhal, and Marjorie Gurthrie. The Woody Guthrie Songbook. Grosset Dunlap. 1976.

Selected Readings for Younger Audiences

Andryszewski, Tricia. The Dust Bowl: Disaster on the Plains. Millbrook Press, 1994. Ages 9-12.

Booth, David. The Dust Bowl. Kids Can Press, 1997. Ages 4-8.

Christensen, Bonnie. Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.Ages 3-7.

Coombs, Karen Mueller. Children of the Dust Days. Carolrhoda Books, 2000. Ages 7 and up.

Cooper, Michael L. Dust to Eat. Clarion Books, 2004. Ages 12 and up.

Durbin, William. My Name is America: The Journal of C.J. Jackson. Scholastic, 2002. Ages 9-12.

Garland, Sherry. Voices of the Dust Bowl. Pelican Publishing Company, 2012. Ages 8 and up.

Guthrie, Woody. This Land is Your Land. Little, Brown, 1998. Ages 4 and up.

Herr, Melody. Summer of Discovery. University of Nebraska press, 2006. Ages 8 and up.

Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. Scholastic, 1997. Ages 10 and up.

Isaacs, Sally Senzell. Life in the Dust Bowl. Heinemann, 2002. Ages 7-9.

Janke, Katelan. Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935. Scholastic Inc., 2002. Ages 9-12

Lackey, Jennifer. The Biography of Wheat. Crabtree Publishing Company, 2007. Ages 8 and up.

Marrin, Albert. Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl. Dutton Children’s Books, 2009. Ages 10 and up.

Meltzer, Milton. Driven From the Land: The Story of the Dust Bowl. Cavendish Square Publishing, 2000. Ages 10 and up.

Moss, Marissa. Rose’s Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression. HMH Books for Young Readers, 2001. Ages 8-12.

Phelan, Matt. The Storm in the Barn. Candlewick Press, 2009. Ages 10 and up.

Raven, Margot Theis and Roger Essley. Angels in the Dust. Troll Communications, 1997. Ages 7 and up.

Sandler, Martin W. The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster. Walker & Company, 2009. Ages 10-14.

Slade, Arthur. Dust. Wendy Lamb Books, 2003. Ages 11 and up.

Stanley, Jerry. Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp. Crown, 1992. Ages 8-12.

Turner, Ann. Dust for Dinner. Harper Collins, 1997. Ages 4-8.

Venezia, Mike. Dorothea Lange. Children’s Press, 2000.

Related Websites

Historical Archives of Project Sponsors:

Two distinguished historical archives owned by sponsor institutions are available as resources for local programming:

http://dc.library.okstate.edu/cdm/search/collection/Dustbowl

The Oklahoma State University Library’s “Women in the Dust Bowl” online oral history archives of interviews with people who lived through the Dust Bowl.

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/resources/daps/asc_dc/henderson/

The Mount Holyoke College Library’s collection of the papers of Caroline Henderson, who farmed throughout the Dust Bowl period and wrote many letters, essays, and articles about her experiences. Many of Henderson’s observations are gathered in the book, Letters from the Dust Bowl, edited by Alvin O. Turner.

Dust Bowl History

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/

Official site for Ken Burns’ film The Dust Bowl. Site includes interactive, videos, biographies, lesson plans, and more.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/dust-bowl/

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-41, is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that contains audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two documentation trips to migrant worker camps in California.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl/

Official site for The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl film. Special features include biographies, interviews, and a timeline.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

Voices from the Dust Bowl, 1940-1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk Song.

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html

Site features oral history interview videos of farmers during the Dust Bowl.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ok/es_ok_dustbowl_1.html

The Dust Bowl of Oklahoma from the Library of Congress.

http://newdeal.feri.org/hopkins/hop27.htm

Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee, August, 1936.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=events-19350414

NOAA site highlights information and images from the Black Sunday dust storm of April 14, 1935.

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm

Dust Bowl significant dates.

http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-dust-bowl

History Channel site explores 10 surprising facts about them1930s environmental disaster.

Wind Erosion and Drought

http://drought.unl.edu/DroughtBasics.aspx

The National Drought Mitigation Center site defines drought, provides forecasting information, and includes historical information about the Dust Bowl.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/drought/drght_history.html

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) created a site using paleoclimatic data, to study past droughts and predict the likelihood of droughts in the future.

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

The National Drought Mitigation Center displays maps that show current drought conditions in the United States.

http://www.weru.ksu.edu/

Studies conducted at the USDA-ARS Wind Erosion Laboratory at Kansas State University result in wind erosion prediction tools and control practices to sustain agriculture, protect the environment, and conserve natural resources.

http://www.drought.gov/drought/content/products-current-drought-and-monitoring-wildfire/keetch-byram-drought-index

U.S. Drought Portal provides information and link to the Keech-Byram Drought Index.

http://agnews.tamu.edu/issues/drought/

AgriLife News: Drought site was developed by the faculty of Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas AgriLife Research to provide information and alternatives that might reduce further losses to the state's agricultural industry and to our homes and gardens.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0319dustbowl.html

NASA explains the Dust Bowl Drought.

http://www.weru.ksu.edu/vids/dust002.mpg

Dust storm film clip from the website of the USDA/ARS Wind Erosion Research Unit at Kansas State University.

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/10/itll-be-better-next-year.html

Link to video that captures the conditions and feel of the Dust Bowl region today.

General Information on the 1930s

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html

This web site features information on 1930s dress, radio programs, comic strips, films, books, articles from many magazines including Survey Graphic, and other items related to 1930s culture. Index is here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/INDEX/index.html

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1930s.html

Site offers hundreds of links to websites with information on the Depression, culture, books, films, cars, art, and many other topics.

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1930s.html

What things cost in the 1930s, and more information about the decade.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.html

A 1930s timeline with notable events by month.

The Roosevelts

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/bio_er.html

Eleanor Roosevelt biography available on the FDR Presidential Library website.

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/bio_fdr.html

Franklin D. Roosevelt biography available on the FDR Presidential Library website.

Pare Lorentz

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/film/lorentz/front.html

Background information on filmmaker and poet, Pare Lorentz.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/film/lorentz/plow.html

Background information on The Plow That Broke the Plains.

John Steinbeck

http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit12/authors-8.html

Background information on John Steinbeck.

http://www.neabigread.org/books/grapesofwrath/

The Big Read – The Grapes of Wrath. Features reader’s guide and lesson ideas.

Music

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/c_w/guthrie.html

Background information on Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Balladeer.

http://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/20thcentury/photography/guthrie.html

Clip of Guthrie singing "Dust Bowl Pneumonia" and talking about his experiences.

https://www.woodyguthrie.org/index.htm

Site includes a biography, lyrics, educational materials, and more.

Photography

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html

Dorothea Lange background information and photographs.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI , 1935-1945

http://www.weru.ksu.edu/pics/dust_storms/

Dust Storms and their damage – the Wind Erosion Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Kansas State University archive of Dust Bowl photographs.

http://www.kancoll.org/graphics/pauldale/

Postcards sent from Kansas showing the dust storms.

http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html

Dust Bowl photographs from the Wind Erosion Research Unit at Kansas State University.

http://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_14.html

Information on Farm Security Administration Photographers with interview clips.

Classroom Resources

Lessons from www.edsitement.neh.gov:

Grades 3-5: Dust Bowl Days

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/dust-bowl-days

The ballads of Woody Guthrie, the novels of John Steinbeck and the WPA photographs of artists such as Dorothea Lange have embedded images of the Dust Bowl in the American consciousness. Introduce this dramatic era in our nation's history to today's students through photographs, songs and interviews with people who lived through the Dust Bowl. Help your students understand the problems Americans were facing during the Great Depression.

Grades 9-12: John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”: The Inner Chapters

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/john-steinbecks-grapes-wrath-inner-chapters

In this lesson, students will first determine the function of Steinbeck’s opening chapter which acts as the first “inner chapter.” They will then explore the relationship between inner chapters and the Joad narrative chapters throughout the novel.

Grades 9-12: John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”: Verbal Pictures

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/john-steinbecks-grapes-wrath-verbal-pictures

In this lesson, students will study the sources of visual images that influenced Steinbeck’s writing in The Grapes of Wrath and its precursors. They will examine Dorothea Lange Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographs from the 1930s and trace Steinbeck’s method of drawing upon and further honing such images into pictorial prose through the “crucible of his imagination.” Students will then analyze and interpret the role the imagery based upon these verbal pictures plays in key passages within The Grapes of Wrath.

Grades 9-12: Steinbeck’s Use of Nonfiction Sources in “The Grapes of Wrath”

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/steinbecks-use-nonfiction-sources-grapes-wrath%20#sect-thelesson

In a 1939 letter, John Steinbeck wrote that his goal for The Grapes of Wrath was “to rip a reader’s nerves to rags.” Through the novel, Steinbeck wanted readers to experience the life of the Dust Bowl migrants with whom he had spent time. To achieve the authenticity he desired, Steinbeck sought to pile genuine, specific detail upon genuine, specific detail. He found an invaluable source in the official reports of Tom Collins, the director of California’s Arvin Migrant Camp. Comparing the reports to The Grapes of Wrath offers students a rare look into a writer’s process of converting nonfiction material into fiction. What details did Steinbeck choose? How did he use them? What purpose was he trying to achieve?

Lessons from www.pbs.org:

Grades 7-12: The Great Plow-up – The Economics of the Dust Bowl

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/educators/lesson-plans/#plow

This lesson explores the history and economics of the Dust Bowl years. Students examine the history of settlement in the Great Plains and analyze the farm practices that turned grasslands and wilderness into crop land. They then look at supply-demand-price charts, matching their rise and fall to major events, and examine the impact on farmers and the U.S. economy.

Grades 7-12: “A Man-Made Ecological Disaster of Biblical Proportions” Examining the Dust Bowl and Other Environmental Events

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/educators/lesson-plans/#disaster

In this lesson, students produce their own documentary on an environmental event, either recent or in the past, in their local community.

Grades 9-12: A New Deal

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/educators/lesson-plans/#deal

In this activity students work in groups, representing different views on what policy to implement to address the problems of the Dust Bowl, and develop solutions to address these problems.

Grades 7-12: Dust Bowl Blues: Analyzing the Songs of Woody Guthrie

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/educators/lesson-plans/#blues

In this lesson, students explore the music of Woody Guthrie by viewing key video segments from THE DUST BOWL. They then analyze the lyrics of Guthrie's songs identifying not only their message but also the effect on audiences in the 1930s and today.

Whirlwind Activities

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/educators/whirlwind-activities/

Because THE DUST BOWL is so rich in educational themes and teachers have a limited amount of time, PBS has developed a series of quick, adaptable activities for classroom use. Each “whirlwind” contains a brief overview along with activity ideas you can use to create lessons tailored to your individual class curriculum and teaching style.

Lessons from www.loc.org:

Dust Bowl Migrations

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/dust-bowl-migration/

Library of Congress teacher’s guide focused historical context, teaching suggestions, links to online resources, and more.

Grades 3-8: Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/dust/

Much of history is interpreted from an adult point of view. This unit helps students gain an understanding of Dust Bowl history through the eyes of a child. Using Karen Hesse’s Newbery Award-winning Out of the Dust as an introduction to this aspect of the Great Depression, students have the opportunity to identify with the personal experiences of youth in the 1930s. In addition, students examine primary source materials of the period to correlate the fictional text with actual visual, auditory, and manuscript accounts as found in the American Memory collections.

Grades 6-12: The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/grapes/

Students use ethnographic research to enhance their reading and understanding of The Grapes of Wrath.

Grades 9-12: The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/migrant/

By examining primary sources, including songs, newspapers, interviews, and photographs of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, students create a scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker, providing evidence of the colloquial speech used by the migrants and the issues affecting their lives. This lesson can be used in connection with a unit on the Great Depression, and specifically on The Grapes of Wrath.

Grades 6-12: Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/migrate/

Is there a novel in every person? Are there stories that have never been told because they seemed unimportant? What is the value of the lives of people who will never be famous or have their biographies written? Are we all part of American Memory? Students address these questions through activities using oral history methods and investigating life in the 1930s. They compare the immigration/migration experiences of their families to those of people living through the Great Depression using interviews with parents, and photographs, films, and documents from the Library of Congress and other sources.

Lessons from http://www.kacvtv.org/dustbowl:

Elementary Lesson Plan: The Whirlwind of the Dust

http://www.kacvtv.org/dustbowl/whirlwind.php

Students will work through a variety of stations to learn about the causes of the Dust Bowl and how Texans were affected by this disaster. Students will then become part of the FAP, the Federal Arts Project and create a large mural depicting images of the Dust Bowl. Their mural should reflect the causes, effects on Americans and how the United States Government helped out the victims.

Elementary Lesson Plan: Life in the Dust Bowl

http://www.kacvtv.org/dustbowl/lifeindustbowl.php

This lesson will explore the experiences faced by those who lived in the area affected by the Dust Bowl. Students will use a variety of primary sources (visual, audio, and print) to learn the hardships faced by those who persevered through the Dust Bowl. Students will then use the resources to evaluate statements about life in the Dust Bowl and finally write a letter in response to the one they have received from a cousin who has little understanding of how the Dust Bowl affected life from day to day.

Secondary Lesson Plan: A Moment in Time: The Dirty Thirties

http://www.kacvtv.org/dustbowl/momentintime.php

This lesson will examine the causes of the Dust Bowl, both human and nature’s roles. Students will begin by brainstorming what they already know about this period in time as to the causes. Students will then watch a documentary and evaluate it. They will then move on to rotating through learning folders activities where they will gather information about individuals, events, and the type of American people who experienced the “dirty thirties.” All students will also listen to the KACV oral histories that have been recorded and placed online.

Secondary Lesson Plan: Counteracting the Devastation of the Dust Bowl – Is that Constitutional?

http://www.kacvtv.org/dustbowl/counteracting.php

This lesson well help students understand the personal hardships endured by individuals affected by the Dust Bowl. Students will view brief video stories from Dust Bowl survivors. The students will also analyze primary sources to initiate further research about the need for government regulation during the Dust Bowl. They will also examine the Constitution to determine if they feel the government’s policies were Constitutional. The student’s performance indicator will be a visual timeline of the Dust Bowl.

Additional educational sites:

Woody Guthrie Educational Curriculum

http://woodyguthrie.org/curriculum/curriculumindex.htm

The Woody Guthrie Foundation has worked with educators to develop curricula to bring Woody Guthrie and primary source documents from the Archives into the classroom. Woody Guthrie can be used to teach a variety of subjects.

Woody Guthrie Center Lesson Plans

http://woodyguthriecenter.org/education/lessonplans/

The Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, OK provides a range of lesson plan ideas for elementary school through high school students.

Grades 5-8: Rural Voices Through Photography

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/lrread03.html

Students will research the history of the Depression particularly in the ways it was documented by photography. Then they will take their own pictures in the style of one of the best documentarians, Dorothea Lange.

Films and Videos

Following is information on a general list of films and videos that might be used with Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry. This is not a comprehensive list, nor is it an ALA-reviewed or recommended list. Please preview films for quality and appropriateness for your audience.

Each library wishing to show films or videos related to the Dust Bowl must arrange for public performance rights (PPR) and payment of fees for those rights.

The following films can be rented from Swank Motion Pictures (www.swank.com, 1-800-876-5577); Swank rental fees include public performance rights.

American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl. Produced by Chana Gazit. 1998. Steward/Gazit Productions.

Dust Bowl. Directed by Ken Burns. 2012. Florentine Films.

Grab a Hunk of Lightening. Directed by Dyanna Taylor. To be released 2014. American Masters/PBS.

Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 1940. 20^th Century Fox.

The Plow That Broke the Plains. Produced by Pare Lorentz. 1936. U.S. Government Short Film. (Available from the FDR Presidential Library: https://archive.org/details/gov.fdr.352.2a.1)

Stinging Dust and Forgotten Lives: The Dust Bowl. 2008.Tempestas et Caelum Productions. Available at: http://tcpfilms.com/studio/sdfl/

When Weather Changed History: Dust Bowl. Produced by Dan Tyrrell. 2008. The Weather Channel.

Exhibit Panels

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Exhibit Panel Dimensions

The Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry exhibition features 10 double-sided panels (total of 20 colorful, illustrated panels). Each panel measures 36” wide x 72” high x .5” deep.

Exhibit Script

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