So long its been good to know you, Woodie Guthrie

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5. My parents lived in Oklahoma during that time yet like yours,

they never once talked about the Dust Bowl. A year or so after I was born, they, like the Joads, left for the Northwest, where other family members had settled. For the rest of his long life, my father constantly bemoaned his fate during "That Great Depression", but again, nary a word about the Dust Bowl and its awful aftermath. Curious...wish now I'd asked more. I recommend a book by Timothy Egan, "The Worst Hard Time", about Dust Bowl survivors. Very enlightening. I recorded Ken Burns' program, will watch when I can screw up the courage. Guess it will be good to learn more about what I survived but was too young to remember.