Author Rena Olsen is out with a new children's book about her mother's joy that's been passed down through the generations. Rena’s book “Maxine's Joy” tells her mom’s story as a Dust Bowl survivor who ...

Apr. 13—CLAYTON — On April 14, 1935, a wall of dust, hundreds of feet high, descended on farms and homes in the Great Plains. People drove as fast as they could to get away from the black clouds or ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Virginia Jett was just a child when an ominous black cloud stretching across the horizon came rolling toward her family's little sod farmhouse in the Oklahoma Panhandle, but it's a ...

Alyssa Colman is the author of the middle grade fantasy The Tarnished Garden and the companion novel The Gilded Girl. Here she reflects on her research behind her forthcoming book, Where Only Storms ...

Following months of research, students at Central Ninth Grade Center presented a first-hand account of the Dust Bowl era to the Sand Springs Cultural and Historical Museum. The students interviewed ...

HOLDREGE — People and places from the Great Depression-Dust Bowl years remain timeless in 80,000 black-and-white photographs taken by some of America’s best photographers of the 1930s. The federal ...