https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3 Read 3 stories from the PBS dust bowl exploration. Summarize the story that interested you the most on this padlet. Then read your peers summaries as well, and comment whether you found it interesting, or have any questions. en-us 2021-03-23 15:31:10 UTC 2021-03-24 17:49:18 UTC hello@padlet.com cmaruffo https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344185923 Robert Forester was a survivor of the Dust Bowl. He left Oklahoma when he was only eight years old and moved West to California. This story is interesting to me because even though he didn't have it easy early in life because of the Dust Bowl he made a great career and life for himself as a teacher and Korean War veteran.]]> 2021-03-23 17:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344185923 lhearn1 https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344187232 Woody was a famous musician called the "Dust Bowl Troubadour.” He was born in 1912 in Oklahoma Guthrie "moved at age 18 to Pampa, Texas, a small town in the hardest-hit area of the Dust Bowl." This time frame inspired him to write the song “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You." Guthrie died from Huntington’s disease in 1967.]]> 2021-03-23 17:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344187232 ajohnson6216 https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344188091 Sam became a US Marine even though his family wanted him to stay on the ranch. He also worked at a Lumber company. He has a wife and 3 children. He was also a good broncobuster.]]> 2021-03-23 17:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344188091 dlitton1 https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344189471 Millard's uncle ran away with a girl in the circus and Millard's aunt then went after his uncle and when she didn't return his grandparents and his father followed after her.  However, their timing was terrible, temperatures were below zero, blizzards were constant, and the influenza pandemic killed cattle and people. Millard grew up on a farm southwest of Elkhart in Texas County, OK. When Millard got married he and his wife had a prosperous farm in Cimarron County and Millard's concrete plant and welding shop was doing well too. Millard then retired at the age of 95.
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]]> 2021-03-23 17:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344189471 https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344198026 As the nation sank into the Depression and wheat prices plummeted from $2 a bushel to 40 cents, farmers responded by tearing up even more prairie sod in hopes of harvesting bumper crops.]]> 2021-03-23 17:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344198026 xpeters https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344199010 Henry Howard - He graduated from Oklahoma A & M and instantly started looking for way to grow crops in better ways. He found that 80% of rainfall didn't go deep enough for the crops to be watered. He found a way to double the water by using runoffs. He took care of a lot of land during the dust bowl. After the dust bowl he returned as the research specialist at Oklahoma A & M.]]> 2021-03-23 17:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344199010 jwatson112 https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344200284 An 8 year drought with extreme dust storms that became the norm. Static charges became a danger to people as well. In 1935 850 million tons of topsoil had blown away. ]]> 2021-03-23 17:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344200284 jaddington1 https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344219384 Short story of John Sedwick's whole family; Mom, Grandmother, dad, mom's sister and cousin, being together surviving through the dust bowl. Furthermore explaining how bad the dust was, as well as lighting and hail. ]]> 2021-03-23 17:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344219384 mconedera1 https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344238495 Calvin was 11 years old when he had moved out of Holly Colorado to Los Angeles California in 1936. He grew up playing musical instruments and during World War 2 he served as a naval navigator.]]> 2021-03-23 17:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344238495 bhammerschmidt https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344282237 Robert and his family had moved to Guymon in the fall of 1938 with his family and they had moved right into the dust bowl chaos and that following spring, his sister had died of dust phnemonia who he himself was already sick with as well but he only had to repeat the third grade a s a result. He spoke of toughing it out as a kid in the dust bowl with not much medicine or anything to make it better, they even used whiskey for medicine as well and hot water.]]> 2021-03-23 17:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/csholty/7gkww38o7yprmeg3/wish/1344282237