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Old 07-18-2017, 11:55   #3
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I didn't get past the first episode of The Dust Bowl. I knew most of the people he interviewed but there was a stadium full that he did not interview who didn't work for the government at the time. I recorded a 9 hour interview with my grandmother, who lived through the Dust Bowl (and my mother was a youg girl at the time), and comparing her observations and the ones he dug up, they were night and day. The FSA photographers and Steinbeck set the narrative. It was bad, but not nearly as bad as they portrayed. How else would the people that he did interview have remained there 60+ years on?

I don't know much about the history of Baseball, so I did enjoy that program.

Pat
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