CMU The Tartan Online
Tragedies, comedies, and musicals
CMU The Tartan Online
... follows a family of sharecroppers, the Joads, as they travel across America searching for a better life in the years following the Great Depression. ...

When Palm Beach was wicked and wild! An Accent quiz
Palm Beach Post
According to the 1939 New Deal-sponsored WPA Guide to Florida, what was the greens fee at the Lake Worth municipal golf course? 21. ...

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Triumph Over Tragedy aims to transform hardship into art
Shreveport Times
To do that, arts councils are directing artists, students, book-lovers and educators to immerse themselves in the Great Depression and the New Deal, ...

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Ken Burns' ode to national parks
Denver Post
Above: A group of tourists listens to Superintendent John White at Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park during the 1930s. White was in charge of the park for ...

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Doug Leen helped rescue some WPA travel posters from oblivion. Here's a look at 11 of his stunning originals and re-creations.

WPA: Telling Living History
Ancestry magazine
It was part of the New Deal, specifically The Works Progress Administration (later the Work Projects Administration), more commonly known as the WPA. ...

USA Today
NSW, Queensland hit by massive red dust storm
NEWS.com.au
He said the storm was worse than those of the 1930s and 40s. "An event like this is extremely rare," Mr Hanstrum said. "It's one of the worst, ...
This dust storm may outstrip 2002The Australian

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REUTERS/Tim Winborne

A dust storm obscures the Sydney Opera House at sunrise this morning.

One of the all-time classics is celebrating its 70th anniversary this month, with a brief return to theaters and a fancy new Blu-Ray disc. Beyond all its other accomplishments, the film deserves a mention for summing up the feelings of many a traveler over the years: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

Home truths on abroad
guardian.co.uk
Not since the 1930s has travel writing been so popular or so important." For nearly 10 years, travel writing was where the action was. ...

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Q&A: Sequoia and Kings Canyon chief naturalist Bill Tweed
Visalia Times-Delta
All those heavy timbered bathrooms, those were built in the 1930s. And they're still using 1930s plumbing. It shows up in quite a few park campgrounds, ...

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Grant helps teachers use Blue Ridge Parkway to teach history
Asheville Citizen-Times
... how to use its historic landmarks to teach about the Great Depression, Roosevelt's New Deal policies, travel and tourism, and economic development. ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Requiem for a dream
Telegraph.co.uk
The Grapes of Wrath. Route 66, the road that in the 1930s had carried the dispossessed from the dustbowl of the Midwest to California in search of a better ...

Final Fashion Week fantasy
New York Post
RALPH Lauren evoked “the resilient spirit of America” with his 1930s dust-bowl chic collection for spring. ...

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Series focuses on Federal Writers' Project's literary contributions
St. Cloud Times
The project was responsible for the American Guide Series of travel guides for every state and for interviews with former slaves and thousands of residents ...

New Deal, new arts
Times Daily
The federally funded Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) and Federal Theatre Project hired skilled artisans and taught ...

The Age
No sin in this city
The Age
In a bid to lure people and money to the state during the Great Depression of the 1920s, Nevada legalised gambling and reduced the length of time required ...

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8220;I want to find out why I’m working,” Cary Grant tells Katharine Hepburn in “Holiday.” Grant’s character, a grocer’s son who put himself through Harvard, wants to take time off from a promising business career, and Grant makes the proposal . . .

DANCING IN THE DARK
Washington Post
"Once I asked a film class to compare 'Gone with the Wind' to 'The Grapes of Wrath," Dickstein writes: "social catastrophe, family disintegration, ...

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Education is the key to conservation, and Ian Shive’s photographs in The National Parks: Our American Landscape enlighten viewers with a rare, adrenaline-filled look at the phenomenal beauty of the American backdrop. Shive’s photography offers a fresh outlook on nature, making a hairy tarantula in the Chihuahuan Desert featured in an extreme close-up, appear as a dazzling wild gem, and depicting a giant Sequoia Tree as it reaches deep into the sky, its branches blending with the stars. In the book’s collection of 200+ photographs, Shive manages to both capture the magnificence of too grand for words settings while enabling the viewer to interact with the environment and process moments in time on an individual level.

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