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luvs2sing

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1. If I remember right, the Ken Burns documentary

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2020, 07:51 AM

Apr 2020

borrowed heavily from Timothy Eagan’s harrowing book, “The Worst Hard Time”. I highly recommend that book as well as the documentary. I have friends whose parents grew up in Dalhart, Texas, and lived through the Dust Bowl. They said both the book and documentary were accurate.

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