Archive: October 12, 2008 - October 18, 2008
The Dust Bowl
Enlarge Photo Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress Cimarron County in Oklahoma was among the hardest hit parts of the country during the Dust Bowl, the severe drought during the Great Depression that forced hundreds of thousands to migrate west. Arthur...
By Travis Fox | October 18, 2008; 1:52 AM ET | Comments (1)
Going to Bed Hungry
Magdalena, N.M. -- The village of Magdalena, New Mexico, is poor. Main street is gravel road. Half of its residents live below the poverty line. The local food pantry and thrift shop have been a blessing to for Magdalena’s...
By Travis Fox | October 17, 2008; 3:57 AM ET | Email a Comment
Market Fears
Sun City, Ariz. – When the stock market drops, Barbara Eylands worries. She estimates that as much as 80 percent of her life savings is in the stock market. This is the money that she uses to put food...
By Travis Fox | October 16, 2008; 2:57 AM ET | Comments (12)
Stuck in Blythe, Calif.
Enlarge Photo Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress Blythe is on the California and Arizona border, an oasis in the middle of the desert. In 1936 Dorothea Lange found a family stuck here during their travels from Oklahoma to more fertile...
By Travis Fox | October 15, 2008; 2:08 AM ET | Comments (0)
"I thought [Obama] was the anti-Christ"
--Stan Colton, registered Democrat, friend of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada), former treasurer of the State of Nevada and the great grandson of the founder of the town of Searchlight. Searchlight, Nevada....
By Travis Fox | October 14, 2008; 4:19 PM ET | Comments (0)
A Race Against Foreclosure
North Las Vegas, Nevada – Alan Schulz is in a race against time. He’s four months late with his mortgage payments. His house is in foreclosure. “In a month and a half, the sheriff will come and evict me...
By Travis Fox | October 14, 2008; 2:56 AM ET | Comments (29)
Lessons from the Great Depression
Bakersfield, Calif. – Their thick Midwestern drawl, boots and belt buckles give them away. The men who gather for breakfast at the local bowling alley each week aren’t from these parts. “We didn’t eat this good in Oklahoma,” declared...
By Travis Fox | October 12, 2008; 3:02 PM ET | Comments (30)
