January 15, 2025
Tag: Dust Bowl
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“Black Sunday” and the 1935 Dust Storm
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The comparison of historic eras is an extreme chore. We read history and think, how terrible that must have been. Maybe in 2080 or 2140 historians will look back and say the same about our pandemic. The great dust storms of the 1930s may have been hard to endure, but other events since then cause…
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May 19, 2021 2 Comments
There is an 1857 song about a little brown church which became part of the American experience. It helped a young song-writer remember part of his youthful years, it helped pay for a medical school education, and it remains one of Christianity’s most performed hymns.