Dust Bowl Era Memories from a Hard Times South Dakota to Aiken
A first person reminiscence of the Dust Bowl and drought in the Great Plains, detailing persistent dust storms, failing crops, livestock decline, and social hardship. The narrative recounts farm life, women’s toll, religious culture, and eventual resilience as communities moved toward wartime aid and migration.
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Oklahoma Panhandle
Canadian
South Dakota
New England
Brother
Public Issues Dominate Times
The article traces how broad eras center on public issues from depression and war to domestic rebuilding and the rise of individualism after Vietnam. It argues the family remains core amid social changes, citing economic pressures, feminism, and youth culture, and notes Rockford College Institute's three day conference on The Family: America's Hope.
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Central America
Kennedy
U.S
Vietnam
America
Rockford College Institute
Rockford
Illinois
RCI
Sculptor Grainger McKay Elevates Wildlife Wood Art
Grainger McKay of Wadmalaw Island creates life size wood carvings of birds in glass enclosures with embedded natural surroundings. His works have sold in New York and southern galleries for 2000 to 20000 dollars, but remain largely unseen in South Carolina.
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South Carolina
United States
Grainger McKay
Wadmalaw Island
Wilmington
N.C
Sumter
McKay
Clemson University
Gilbert Maggioni
Beaufort
Grainger
Maggioni
Museum of Natural History
New York
Birmingham Museum of Art
Alabama
Greenville County Museum of Art
Georgia
Maryland
Utah
Hammer
New York City
East
Charleston
William C. Coleman
Gibbes Art Gallery
Gibbes Museum
McKoy
Grainger McKoy
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Drain Hurting
S.C
the Arts
Charlotte N. Cassels
Aiken Standard
Charlotte Cassels
S.C. Arts Commission
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