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[oldberkeley]

LOL.

The photo made me think of something. One of the best books I've read in the past few years is Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time.It won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2005.

It's the largely unknown and untold story of the people who stayed in the Dust Bowl, actually many more than those who left. You just will not believe what they went through: the poverty, the starvation, the illness, the death of their loved ones. I always think about it when I hear someone complain about how long the line is at the grocery checkout!

Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is a great story, but this is the counterpoint.