Dust Bowl Journal
It has been three months of no rain. My father gets more upset every day because wheat needs rain to thrive, and his soil is getting really dry. Today he told us we might run out of money. I have heard stories about broke people who needed to sell their houses for money and now live in a tent city called Hooverville. Also, the air has been filled with strange dust lately.
Goodnight.
image 1:
Farmer's Child in Dust Bowl. [Photograph]. Retrieved from Encyclopedia Britannica ImageQuest.
image 2: The American Depression 1930s: Thousands of jobless lived in shanty towns nicknamed 'Hoovervilles', earning a few cents a day sorting bottles and cans. This 'Hooverville' was located near the waterfront in Seattle.. [Photography]. Retrieved from Encyclopedia Britannica ImageQuest.
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September 17, 1931
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It has been three months of no rain. My father gets more upset every day because wheat needs rain to thrive, and his soil is getting really dry. Today he told us we might run out of money. I have heard stories about broke people who needed to sell their houses for money and now live in a tent city called Hooverville. Also, the air has been filled with strange dust lately.
Goodnight.
image 1:
Farmer's Child in Dust Bowl. [Photograph]. Retrieved from Encyclopedia Britannica ImageQuest.
image 2: The American Depression 1930s: Thousands of jobless lived in shanty towns nicknamed 'Hoovervilles', earning a few cents a day sorting bottles and cans. This 'Hooverville' was located near the waterfront in Seattle.. [Photography]. Retrieved from Encyclopedia Britannica ImageQuest.
