Women’s History & The Depression Era Resource

By NWHP admin on November 17th, 2009

This is a new webpage, free, updated daily, and easily accessible, which will eventually be linked as the first guest artist page of the official Horton Foote website.

Mr. Foote was the Pulitzer Prize winning screenplay writer of such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies.

The new webpage is an unfolding epic story of a time and a place in American history that has received too little attention nationally. The work is by a new writer, whose grandparents were cotton farmers. It is the epic story of Riah McKenna, a young farm woman who, along with her family, is struggling to survive the Dust Bowl. Uniquely, each day the author will put up a new “mini-episode” of this ongoing story of family, friends, and hard times.

This webpage offers an opportunity to students and scholars to reflect on the issues raised by those difficult Dust Bowl years. Moreover, it offers an opportunity to interact with the author as the story unfolds, because she will be visiting the blog frequently as it starts up.

It is a proud part of our history that the people of that era created their personal identities at a time of such anguish. Their determination, their marriages and friendships, and even their sense of humor deserve to be known to a wider audience.

At present the only place to access this new work is:
http://dustbowlpoetry.wordpress.com

To hear an interview with the author, you can click on www.barnmedia.net and scroll down to the Dust Bowl story.

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