Artistic+History+of+the+Dust+Bowl

====** Listen to Woody Guthrie’s “Dust Bowl Ballads”. Think about the words. What do you think he means when he says, “the soup was so thin, even the senators could see through it”? What do legislators of any time need to see to make informed decisions? **====

[|Woody Guthrie Video] [|Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads]

==== **Dorothea Lange, a photographer, was part of a government project to record the plight of the migrants who fled the dust of the plains only to become the homeless of the west. Her photographs of these people are some of the most poignant photos ever made and are an important part of our history.** ====

[|Dorothea Langes' Story]