Stories from the Dust Bowl (2005)
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Smoky Hills Public Television produced a documentary titled, “Stories from The Dust Bowl.” Through the use of old photographs, music, film and interviews with those who lived through this time period, Smoky Hills Public Television presents a special program that tells the story of this critical time in history. It is important to capture the recollections and stories from the past to learn of the hardships of those who survived and continued to make a life and home in Kansas and the plains. There are many stories to be told; however many of those will soon be gone.
Visits included Hugoton, Liberal, Great Bend, Hays and Garden City, Kansas and Goodwell, Oklahoma as well as interviews with men and women from across our viewing area. The Wind Erosion Research Unit of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service at Kansas State University has done extensive research on the subject and history consultants from Fort Hays State University, University of Kansas, Barton County Community College and Oklahoma Panhandle State University were interviewed.
“This Program is funded in part by the Kansas Humanities Council, a nonprofit cultural organization promoting understanding of the history, traditions, and ideas that shape our lives and build community.”
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My mom and dad lived through the Depression. And it showed as I grew up. My mom and dad tought me the things that they learned from the Depression. I still to this day will sow or pach my clothes to make them last. I don't believe in keeping my money in the bank, some people do, I don't. To be truthful I don't have any money to put in the bank. I'd like to but I don't, someday maybe.
Don't feel bad Dorothy, I'm 76. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it left.
@@1946luke Thanks, I appreciate that. I just turned 60 this year. I don't feel bad about growing up the way I did it showed me how to make it in life, ya there are times when a friend of mine will see me in something and know that I had to pach that top or pear of pants for like the umtheeth time and I sometimes will get a new thing of clothes. I mean it helps to know that you have friends like that. Love from Marysville, California
@Ru Milbourn Very happy. I don't have any one story to tell about my mom and dad. But I learned how to sow from them and how to darn so I can make things like socks and stockings last and how to patch my clothes when they need it. I also learned how to get back up on my feet if I need to, and how if this life gives you lemons to make lemonade. That's what my mom and dad thought me as I grew up. Because of what I know I can if I need to take care of my self. My mom and dad worked hard all of their lifes and what I know is what they thought me. Unfortunately I lost them a long time ago, but they're still with me and looking out for me. Love from Marysville, California
Taught./ patch.
@@garyfrancis6193 Yes, I was tought. My dad tought me how to sew and I still can. I don't sew as much as I used to because I need new glasses and I haven't gotten them yet. Hey, I will be 61 next month. Love from Marysville California
The same problems in Australia prompted a sustainable farming movement here. If we don't learn from our past mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them.
America has a big problem now (like mentioned in the video) that outsiders own huge tracks of land and farm them, so small farmers who might care for the land more are disappearing. This affects land prices and taxes, too - making owning small farms much harder.
@@genkiferal7178 even so, we all need to have a garden right now. Grow as much food as we can. Save seeds, etc.
Exactly the reason why we convert food into crappy fuel. Oh wait...
Australia has committed the same crimes against humanity pretty much. (The aborigines) None of you have learned. Your sins will find you out.
@@cecemeadows8117 All countries have a dark past.
I was raised by parents and grandparents that taught me to solve problems, be self reliant and kind to people.
My Jeep engine blew up yesterday, now I have no place to sleep.
I think we see calamity happening again now with so many homeless & even some working people unable to afford a home. So many people struggling to afford the basics.
I just think about how my Parents and Grandparents lived back then and it makes me admire their strength and fortitude. And makes me very thankful for what we have today. Thank you for teaching us this history and giving us the reminder that it could always be worse.
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I listen to this history and wonder how people could worry about global warming. The climate is getting better as time goes on.
@@markmiller8903warmer not better
Exactly. Now common sense derived from what they saw & heard is called "racism" or "discrimination". Let's see the minorities cower behind the real men & women ready to act in the face of the enemies in our future.
Long live the wisdom of oral folklore. Deepest thanks.
A friend from Oakley, Kansas told me (if my memory serves me correctly) that the clubbed rabbits were stored frozen in corn cribs and sold to mink growers for food. They could have fed them to hogs. They eat anything. In Oklahoma, oil had been discovered on my great-grandfather's farm near Ada. Because of this he was able to buy farms that were being abandoned in the Great Depression and give them to each of his children.
@quercusrubra777 About finding that oil on your grandfather's farm..... Fabulous!!! Good for him ❤
Good for them. Ada is now well known for its despicable treatment of two innocent men who were persecuted in the name of “justice.”
Times were hard all over. That generation was rock solid. WPA had some excellent masonry workers and many cities still have walls, buildings etc. standing proudly today. Good quality of workers.
The depression and dust bowl Oklahoma were truly rough times. People back then who survived were remarkable.
Yes, they were ❤ my family. I miss them. They're all gone now. My dad was born in 1929 in Little Axe, OK, and passed at 87 in 2015. I loved listening to the stories.I didn't realize how bad it was until I saw The Grapes of Wrath. 😢
i like thgat commit from back then; were in america and americans have had a lot of hardship but were going try and fight it through. lord bless
I was listening to this video last night and my ears perked up when I head the comments given by the farmers who were forced to leave after they were all failing and had no other choice but to try some other place for their families to !succeed! I heard the name Lawrence Svboda and my ears perked up and made sure to comment today! He wrote a book: Surviving The Dust Bowl. I worked at the public library and was able to read it several times! Many years ago I saw his story portrayed on the PBS documentary series: American Experience. It was of the same title of the book and his voice was narrated by Matthew Modine!
I admire the people that lived through this. They are such hardworking humble people and did what they had to do to survive.
Right... So "hard working." Massacring innocent Native Americans and blacks to get everything they had is "hard working". You're living a lie.
would love to ask them their opinions on minorities lol
Well, then you should admire most humans who have ever lived, since working hard and doing what they had to do to survive is what human-kind -- and animals -- have always done.
@peacenow42 them as in the white dust bowl farmers that are the subject of the film, you autistic racebaiting dumbass.
Mamma came up the hard way, had to work from very young. Everyone worked. She quit school at 15 because there was no choice. Her income was needed for survival.
My dad.was born in 1930. My grandfather went to work at a concrete plant, driving a truck. He left my grandmother with four kids (My dad was the oldest). He said he remembers his granny and grandpa on a truck like something out of The Grapes of Wrath.
what a treasure! such an honor to hear their personal accounts
Having intermittent emotionally charged music in the background really diminishes the stories the people are telling. Aren't their memories significant and engrossing enough that they don't need contemporary sounding dramatic music to "enhance" them? Please let the people's stories speak for themselves - what they say is already fascinating! Don't distract from that.
I agree it's mixed in too loud and you have to stretch your ear to hear what the people are saying 🫦🌨️
OVERDONE music has been a peeve of mine for a while now and this is a perfect example. It is distracting and feels manipulative.
Cheapens the words. Shut the music off, or at least turn it way down.
Yep, I'm out.
How to tell how old you are. Never fails
No idea why this was recommended by tube, AWESOME DOCUMENTARY!! God bless these folks for sharing this!! From a farm boy 4 th generation in Michigan.
My mother lived in a railroad car during the depression my grandfather worked for the Works Progress Administration my uncle worked for the CCCs that was in North Dakota
Here is a documentary about the WPA... ruclips.net/video/mHMLLf3pZJI/видео.html
Yes the music is distracting from the dialogue, that’s too bad 😞
Excellent documentary I've seen it a couple times. I love history stuff and listening to stories from our senior generation.....I just realized I'm a senior generation now, what the heck happened lol.
As shi++y as this was, I think every generation needs a good kick in the ass to keep things real. Can you emagine if something like this occured today!? The majority of people wouldn't have the means to manage the situation. Mentally, physically, spiritually, we would be crushed.
Climate change is here. It is already hard for many people. I think people rise to the occasion, andthe past few generation will rise to these climate change problems. They already are. There are more vegetarians and vegans and people eating no meat or dairy. Not being fed the lies by big corporations.
It is slowly happening right now and will destroy like nothing before. This is not by accident , mistake or fate, This is planned and being carried out on purpose, it is how the 1% operate.
My father grew up in the panhandle and the dust bowl. he would tell me stories of a healthy 21-year old that got Pneumonia and died from it and the dirt in his lungs.
Matthew Landers the fuck that makes no sense .
@@aquablue1252 wdym
@@aquablue1252 can't you speak a bit better?
Silicosis
It's referred to in Scripture as JUDGEMENT.
the dust bowl is why their are so many oak trees in Oklahoma. My grandparent went through it and the stories are quite harrowing.
What?
@@MamaofaWrestler They planted oak trees to stop the soil from blowing off to Texas. As to the stories. Let's just say you could go to bed and wake up with you car under 4-5 feet of dirt.
The Dust got in the house no matter what you did. My Mom's family lived through it. The young girls helped around the house plus chores. They rinsed the dust out of the pots and pans before cooking the same with the dishes. My Mom Kept that habit of rinsing out the pots and pans for the rest of her life.
My mother said grass hoppers ate the clothes off the clothes lines
I heard that in school. We had tons of grasshoppers when I was a kid... they munched through our garden plants like crazy. Not hard to imagine hungry ones clearing a clothesline.
My grandparents, who were farmers, lived during the dust bowl. Grandma Mac said she remembered sweeping really fine dirt piles that would sift in through the doors and windows and an hour or so later she would have to do it again. Her kids, my dad, aunts and uncles wore handkerchiefs over their faces to try and help them to be able to breathe. Great Depression.
Most young people, today, wouldn't survive that era.
I bet they would.
You would be surprised at what young people can and will do.
Survive ? Ha they would thrive pal ! Those were dumb people back then most not even high schol diploma
Damn right
I bet you're fun at parties.
Story of my Great Grandparents (my fathers, Fathers parents) (Now, My mothers parents?? I do not know! Thats sickens me!!, All I know is they built a home in Lodi, Ca. in 1936 on a small plot my Grandfather bought for $100.00 and my brother now resides in that home.) Back to my Great Grandparents, they worked as they traveled west from Arkansas. Later my Great Grandmother Nola, would end up assembling bombs for B-17's. As my Great Grandfather was a Doughboy in WWI. (and to hear some claim, "America was never Great") makes me SICK. These people ARE America and Built and Made America. Overcame MAJOR Obstacles.)
Amen
What an inspirational and uplifting group of people from my grandparents generation, the greatest! I enjoyed watching this! Thank you so much for sharing! ❤🤍💙
My paternal grandfather would hide money in cigar boxes in his pantry. My grandmother had died in 1972 and I know they banked when she was alive. My great uncle, grandfather’s brother, hid money in the rafters of his house. He had a very tiny house and barn. He would hire a guy to help with the harvest. In 1958 he hired a guy to help and this guy found out about the hidden money. When my uncle was gone one day the guy broke in and stole the money. It was about $50,000! There was no way to track the guy as he was paid in cash and were guys passing through. No employment agencies. This was their life savings.
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This video is from almost 20 years ago. I retired from the agency formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service. It breaks my heart to say the Dust Bowl is back. Much more widespread and not as thick but it is back. A lot of the CRP has been plowed up and drought continues while ground water runs out. No-till was more popular 20 years ago.
Thankyou for sharing. I really appreciate being able to hear from the people who experienced these historic events.
Farmers wives put up cheesecloth on the windows with a paste of flour and water to keep the dust out. The wind was so hard and fast it blew layers and layers of dirt. It went down to big spiders. One person said her baby brother was bitten by one of those spiders he died.....she cried when she told that story. Sad 😢
Fantastic documentary but I’d like to have a strong word with whoever mixed the background music so loud over these poor soft-spoken old folk😂
Really? It’s the music and not the poor audio quality? 👌
@peacenow42easier and more ‘look at me’ in complaining
I'm wondering how many people dint survive👀 Thanks for the History. Dont let history die.
Avery fine historical collection of a period in our recent past that could easily happen again if people become neglectful of their natural enviornment. Thank you!
Or sun activity causes the problem. But that would be impossible.
@@tsriftsal3581 Thankfully we’ve fine tuned some skills since then. We understand a lot more now.
I love that cute old lady saying she drove the fast car for her dad. A badass. This Would’ve been terrifying to live through
She was a fireball wasn't she. 💖
things are scary now. We all need to learn from these folks because I fear we're not far off from another form of a 'Dust Bowl' if you will. Think of things about how you'd fair or what you'd do if... But if we stand together, look what had been accomplished.
@@yeoldesaltydog7415 you bet your ass. God sees everything. He hasn't forgotten. He will recompense the wicked, just like he did back then.
wow! this is such a huge education for me, what a massive struggle to live and survive in those decades, yet without the disasters farming methods would not have changed, let alone be questioned.
Music is too loud! I cannot hear the voices. Thank you for posting this:)
I can barely hear it. I’m not deaf. Maybe turn down the hearing aid rather than complaining
Could we handle going through this these days and still come out it as humans 2021
Looks like we’re about to find out my friend. God bless
@@brandonlopez8950 Yes we are. Gonna be a whole different ball game this round. Get right with God.
south and west minnesota is turning to dust as the farms get bigger and bigger and trees are cut down it blows dirt people do not learn when they farm for the bank not family.
they plant nothing but field corn and soybeans and have 10,000 cows in a barn that eat corn when God made cows to eat grass and they never get sun on their backs damn shame
Thank you so much for sharing this. ❤
The music is really loud in the mix. It’s a little distracting.
nice pfp
The music doesn’t help the video
Store bought dresses were NOT like they are today. I have always sown so bought clothes 15 year or 20 ago. Ordered three nightgowns from store and one opens up down front buttons too small, one the sleeves are too short and a button fell off. So I live in one of three. The two suits I bought one is a size 2X and the other one a small. So I can't wear either one of these. I wish I had my sewing machine set up I would use all this material to make me some REAL HOMEMade clothes. xoxoxo
My mom used to make all my clothes except for the panties😮 she grew up during these times.
My aunt didn’t want any homemade clothes. My grandmother, born in 1904, was given a coat and a box from a fancy store. She took that coat apart and made my aunt a coat, snow pants, and hat. She then sewed the tag in from the store. She put the coat in the box for Christmas. My aunt thought she was hot stuff in a store bought coat. It was quite a long time until she was told it was a remade handle me down. I made a lot of my scrubs while working in the hospital. People would say they were as good as store bought. I say they were better! 💙
Amazing, thank you so much for this, I so enjoyed it !
My Grandma grew up in North Dakota during this time. Mind you I'm talking about the Dust Bowl during the 1930s.
I figured since its a video about the Dust Bowl. It’s not like anyone thought you were talking about the Bronze Age.
@@bigtime8924 HAHAHAHAHA! I was thinking the same thing!
@@jp3eku Right? And then North Dakota isn’t even involved lol
@@bigtime8924drought and dust storms hit the Dakotas BEFORE they occured in Texas and Oklahoma. President Roosevelt visited North Dakota to survey the damage.
This is not taught in schools - it should be!
Yes it is
Why aren't we questioning the brutal mass slaughter all of the natural animals
of the plains, the millions and millions of buffalo, which removed that
vital cycle of hooved animals grazing, defecating, trampling, fertilizing
maintaining the prairie grasses that held in the moisture.
It was that heinous act that had to have a devastating effect on the soil.
Who destroyed all the trees before the grasslands we're there? We probably need to have a talk with them about their carbon footprint. Maybe we can get their ancestors to pay for past environmental crimes.
We use another ruminant today- cattle.
@@tsriftsal3581 Were there trees there before the grasslands?
@@sarahstrong7174 it's seems there was but agrarian people burned them to farm long before the the Europeans.
@@tsriftsal3581 Sad.
my mom grew up in western Kansas during that time she told us kids how it was
My family lost their homestead in Kansas during the dust storm in the 1930,s
I saw a documentary that said they could see the dust clouds as far away as New York
A lot of those rabbits were eaten by the people that killed them. My grandfather told us about doing this in Potter County, SD. They would have starved to death without them.
Rabbit meat has no nutrition. If you only eat rabbit you will starve to death.
@@JohnDavis-yz9nq Are you freaking serious? No nutrition? Hmm? Somehow I think you may be full of crap.
Squirrel too....
@@kirtreeves7777 squirrels my friend plural. Just saying. Let’s go Brandon.
Karen Lasslett thats a fact its called rabbit starvation it doesn't have any fat and if you eat only rabbit you can die on a full stomach.
The music is too loud and very intrusive...but hey, it matches the style of 30's movies...
I loved this ty
Thank you this was very insightful and informative 👍👍
it sux listening to a quiet dialog with an obnoxious music track playing over it... ruined it for me. crappy post production.
Interesting docmentary. Too bad about the background music. Very intrusive.
The rabbits were huge, I’m surprised they didn’t take some home to eat or feed their own dogs. I didn’t know that their was a rabbit issue during the dust bowl
The rabbits diet probably affected the taste of the meat.
Rabbits lived in holes in the ground the soil blew away and the rabbits had no homes
I know my people did.... my Uncle used to tell stories about he and my grandpa going out near Mound City Kansas and with Carbine Lanterns clubbing rabbits and grandma frying them up. Did what they had to do... I am a 7th grade Social Studies teacher and just had my 80plus YO mother talk to my class about her experiences in the latter part of the Great Depression.
I am eighty eight years and ate some of these food.s but no tumbleweeds. We were very fortunate about food.
Good interviews and cutaways to source material. The music is brutal and poorly mixed.
thxs for teaching history, LOVE it!
im subbed :)
They were just little people then but they were stubborn hard headed folks
Good video. Thanks for producing it. Would have liked to have seen some nonwhite people telling us how it was for them as well.
My family lived in Eastern Colorado during the Dirty 30s. They had many stories about life in that era. Farmers and Ranchin
Did not know about the rabbits. Those images of young children holding dead rabbits I won't soon forget.
I have only just found out about this. I knew of the depression of the 30s but not this :0
Poor rabbits… here in alaska they clubbed seals.. horrible way to go. I know folks did what they had to do. Please try to respect all creatures.. everything fears, we are blessed to live among them.
The Great Depression, drought, locust, rabbits, dust, famine - am I missing a plague or two?
I rented a half acre farm on the last dirt road in City of San Dimas, SoCal. Every spring we had new wild bunnies, all colors so they were pets somebody set loose once upon a time. One spring they got the plague bubonic and the neighbor man came over & would shoot them, you could hear them along ways off screaming like children because their spines stopped working from about waist down and the bunnies were so scared of it. They couldn't run just drag along. After it happened again, I called the Health Dept. They came out and made sure this never happened again. I don't recall what they did but it stopped happening and my two boy & I always missed those bunnies peeking out from under the front porch, wood, just tiny & never knew what colors we would get. So cute. Such an awful experience to have for the boys to have to endure. 7 & 3 yrs. old little boys. Poor rabbits thank you God for teaching me about truth of reincarnation. The Bible says clearly No body can kill or be killed. Only the body we grow dies and then we grown another one. With the help of good ole' mom & Dad & God that is. LOL. Please Lord don't let those people in the Mts. of CA starve in their homes. I couldn't bear that. Save them all, Cali makes over 7 hundred billion dollars in profit per year. Get them out or get them food and what they need. Stay at the ready and go in with a food drop and a helicopter you use for fires up there and the water droppings. If they own up t here paying five fire taxes a year. Go save those people as soon as that sky opens. Go do it.
Excellent video. I highly recommend reading John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath."
Does anyone ever check the closed captioning? It is either a computer or a deaf person who does it. There were serious errors. Example at 49:35.
Artificial intelligence??
I'm amazed people even survived this! I keep asking myself why did it happen, & was there anything that could have been done to prevent it?
An almost impossibly difficult period for those folks! I have to admire them.
The background music is too loud and unnecessary.
Great documentary, but I did have to fiddle w/ the volume @ some points.
Me too,also the music was somewhat overwhelming!!
The music that plays while the people are telling their stories detracts from the experience. I can’t hear what they’re saying over the music. It seems to me to dishonor them.
My grandparents moves to California where my grandpa was born because of the dust bowl. Suck what the higher powers do to our history.
That's how most of California was populated.
Now days many don't have the same level of humbleness ,, specially in the white house,,
Barter and trade! Yes sir. Thats the way it should be. Rich on your skills. Real skills.
The music is too loud to understand the people talking 🙄
Very interesting but the music is too loud !
Yeah men can always walk out, now we know childhood trauma changes the brain. My dad came out of the 30’s with cash only habits. His dad got shot in WW1 , worked in the foundry when it was open during the depression. An alcoholic and dead at 58, I don’t think he ever had fun.
Lord said,on the 7th year let the land rest.These farmers never followed his instructions. Reap what you sow.
Let’s not forget that land taxes are unconstitutional and only a tyrany would take a mans land from him especially in those times, my Great Depression happened in 2008 and We bien trying to recover ever since, now my sentiments are that of the old timers that I still know that lived in those times, I am afraid we a headed for a bigger crash than then but for me and my’n we are tougher for it and trust the father in the future to come.
Sad, that when the going got tough, men abandoned their wives and children. That’s disgusting
Horrible audio I stopped watching less than two minutes in. Why can’t professionals learn how to edit sound
I had to stop watching after 10 minutes of incessant background music.
Much like today in 2023 rain is scarier than hens teeth
Just because someone quits drinking doesn't mean they arent alcoholics stil.
Just think, it was all man made . Over grazing and not rotating crops.
Bless these people telling their stories. The masks then actually saved people. The Red Cross being involved means more to me than the CDC.
Music is too loud
How the heck did you keep the dirt from getting sucked into the carburetor and killing the engine? Why didn’t these good farmers move to a better state where there was good, rich soil and enough rain. These stories remind me of Southern California in the 1920’s +30’s when in the winter the Citrus Crops had to be Smudged at night to keep the fruit from freezing and the black smoke would creep into the homes even with all the windows closed. Folks would wake up covered in black soot. Most Citrus workers were displaced farmers from the mid west. I remember while in High School every Summer grape farmers would come in our class and ask us to help pick grapes. We got paid by the box. It wasn’t much but it was honest work.
Most of these farmers were immigrants. Not wealthy farmers on good producing land.
Rich land costs more. Some folks just have to manage with what they have.
I think those that could, did. Don't forget, this all happened along with and behind the great depression
Sad, very sad… it’s like how can ppl not think the government purposely repeats to cause these problems
American lands and owners haven’t changed at all, has it?
This audio sucks. First it's too loud, then it's too quiet... ear bud users, don't watch this. How sad, I really wanted to watch this.
Mute the sound and turn on captions…it is worth the watch.🖤🇨🇦
🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 nutrient-rich crops🤔
🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂⬅️ Decomposed mulch
Don't need music while they are talking !!!😠
Garden of Eden 🌱🤔
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Great documentary except for the music
The soil was just blow sand and blow dirt. It wouldn't rain. You couldn't get a weed to grow in it.
What's up with the John Williams style music?
Awful music the stories are powerful enough the music overpowering & disrespectful so I turned off ,shame !!!
God bless turn to Jesus and be saved God and Jesus is always with u!!!