Monday, September 9, 2013

The Era of the Dust Bowl



SUNY Oswego will opened an exhibition focused on rural hardships during the Dust Bowl and Depression, on Friday, Sept. 6, in Tyler Art Gallery. “The Era of the Dust Bowl,” is in conjunction with the college’s Oswego Reading Initiative.
“The Era of the Dust Bowl” will display 22 limited-edition lithographs from the Grant Arnold Collection of Fine Art Prints from the 1930s, 36 images by photographers working for the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s, a black-and-white 25-minute documentary by Pare Lorentz titled “The Plow that Broke the Plains” and four posters created by graphic design students at SUNY Oswego promoting the Oswego Reading Initiative.
The Oswego community this summer was encouraged to read “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl” by Timothy Egan, who will appear at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, in Hewitt Union ballroom at SUNY Oswego.