DUSTBOWL CHILDREN

Passing through the vast and desolate Southern Great Plains one might see the occasional hollow shell of an abandoned home on the side of the road and its ghostly tenant; a casualty of the great depressing and the phenomenon that labeled the area “The Dust Bowl”.  The dispossessed, disheartened, hungry and seeking brighter horizons left the cities in droves in the 1930’s and headed west only to find more sorrow in the form of “Black Blizzards”, dust storms so heavy they turned day into night.  Many who witnessed such storms felt the end days were upon them and the Wrath of God was swallowing them in a cloud of dusty gloom. The decade long era took many an innocent life and their shadows can be seen hovering in front of the abandoned places that dot the landscape along the highways of the Great Plains. These shadowy beings, mostly children, almost seem to reach out begging for sustenance that their bodies no longer need and water that their dust choked throats no longer require; un-living proof of nature’s merciless fury.

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