Category: Dust Bowl
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The View from Ground Zero: Sunday Oct 11, 2020 winds bring memories of Dirty Thirties
Tags: 1887, 1935, 1937, 2020, Bent county register, Dirty Thirties, dustbowl, ground zero, moms basementThe term ground zero is usually associated with an explosion and describes the location closest to a detonation. In the case of an explosion above the ground, ground zero refers to the point on the ground directly below the detonation. In recent American culture it often refers to the location nearest 911 terrorist attacks on […]
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I have been collecting artifacts of the Dust Bowl as it relates to Baca County for awhile. My focus is compiling a resource that tells the “Dust Bowl” story from the perspective of the Baca County Newspaperman, in particular, Springfield Democrat Herald, Editor Ralph Williams. However, the research from other newspapers across the country […]
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The Dust Bowl Days: by George Chatham As I shared in an earlier post the Elmer & Lela Chatham family left Baca County and moved to Power’s county sometime in the mid 1920’s. My grandparents (Fred and Ethel Chatham) moved from the “dug-out” on Fred’s homestead to Elmer Chatham’s homestead March 13, 1924. The reason […]
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Posted with permission of Gloria Jean. Original article appeared in the Huckaby Times (Cousin Newsletter), April 2004 On Sunday April 14th, 1935, the sun came up in a clear sky. The day was warm and pleasant, a gentle breeze whimpered out of the southwest. Suddenly a cloud appeared on the horizon. Birds flew swiftly ahead […]
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August 2018 NOTE: This resource will be updated extensively later this fall as I am currently preparing a resource “The Dust Bowl: The View from Ground Zero.” Stay tuned. Growing up in Springfield Colorado in the 1930’s, my mother was a child of the Dust Bowl. I asked her once if she remembered Black Sunday any more […]
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Reposted from KentBrooks.com November 28, 2013 In early September 2013, I was in my hometown of Springfield Colorado. While eating at the Longhorn Steakhouse I got into a discussion with an old Baca County compadre, Kevin Greenlee, about author Sanora Babb. Babb wrote “An Owl on Every Post” which chronicles her early years living in a dugout on the Southeast […]
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