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Did anyone watch the documentary on "The Dust Bowl"?
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My granparents on both sides stayed, and both of my parents were raised in western OK during the dustbowl.
Quoting: goodmockingbird I'm sure it was a hard life. They had to be strong people to survive that. I can't imagine a life without grass and trees. Did your grandparents every talk about it. Sure. But it was simply 'life as it was'. They never refered to "the dustbowl". It was simply 'back in the '30s', or kind of referred to as 'when things were kind of tough for a while'. It was such an integral part of life that they did not see it as anything unusual. The frugality and self reliance required to survive those days would now be considered quite remarkable. Contrary to popular belief that "poverty creates crime" -- quite the opposite occured. People slept with their doors unlocked. But they were an armed society. Nowadays readers here often consider me brutal in commenting upon food stamp and welfare recipients. There was no safety net back in the 30s here. None. People did not resort to crime. They resorted to ingenuity.
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