Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry is a nationally traveling exhibit sponsored by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities that will be at the Rifle Branch Library from March 6 until April 17. The traveling exhibition features twenty colorful, illustrated panels about the Plains area before, during, and after the Dust Bowl occurred. The exhibit will use images and quotations from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, memories of the Dust Bowl from oral histories and writing, and recent scholarly analysis. QR codes on the panels lead to selections from the OSU oral histories, the writings of Caroline Henderson, and other primary sources.
The Rifle Branch Library will be hosting scholars on the Dust Bowl, drought in the west, and oral histories as part of the exhibition. There will also be a two-part screening of Ken Burn's PBS documentary "The Dust Bowl" and copies of the book, "The Worst Hard Time" available to book clubs and individuals for discussion. All programs are free.
Image courtesy of the U. S. Department of Agriculture