Volume 17 , Issue 24

Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! Well! I hope the "Dog Days of Summer" aren't be to hard on you humans and your animals. NW Okie is keeping great watch over this short-nosed Pug in Houston's hot, humid climate. I'm just glad it isn't like the "Dirty Thirties" NW Okie has me researching right now.

Did you know ... The worst storm of the Dust Bowl occurred on April 14, 1935, known as Black Sunday. Carrying dust up to 200 miles off the Atlantic coast, the storm blackened cities and traveled at over 100 miles per hour. Animals and insects fled south and a woman believing the storm marked the beginning of Armageddon, killed her child to spare her the horror. And while Hugh Hammond Bennett was delivering a speech to Congress about soil preservation, dust rained down on Washington D.C. and blackened out the sun. Congress passed his legislation.

They say this was also around the same era of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde, famous bank robberies. I suppose many farmers did admire the duo for their sense of justice, because people were feeling like banks had robbed them of their savings during the bank crisis, deserving to get a taste of their own medicine.

Another tidbit of Oklahoma history for you from the 1930's concerns the then governor of Oklahoma, "Alfalfa Bill" Murray running for president in 1932 under the platform of "Bread, Butter, Bacon, Beans." Alfalfa Bill's platform was not powerful enough to beat Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the Democratic nomination, though.



Remember Woody Guthrie's song he wrote about the Dust bowl - "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Ya."

Good Night! Good Luck! Woof! Woof!
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