G is for. . . . .

[gamoonbat]

Although this meme has now died a slow and well-deserved death, I am just now getting around to the challenge posed to me several weeks back by paularubia. Here are ten (10) things that (not so immediately) came to mind which all begin with the letter G....

1. Girls, Girls, Girls! - first on my list initially, although subsequently bumped by

Comments

[melsmarsh]

dust bowl years or bombing of Hiroshima

Well one out of two isn't bad. :) What are the dust bowl years? I don't remember hearing about that in history class.

[cannotspell]

The only reply that comes to mind is "this land is your land, this land is my land from California to the New York Island, this land belongs to you and me"! Woody Guthery is rolling over in his grave.

Now that I have the old lady, pain in the butt, out of my system this should be helpful

For eight years dust blew on the southern plains. It came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North. The simplest acts of life - breathing, eating a meal, taking a walk - were no longer simple. Children wore dust masks to and from school, women hung wet sheets over windows in a futile attempt to stop the dirt, farmers watched helplessly as their crops blew away. [source]

W assigned to you

[gamoonbat]

The way that the meme works, I just remembered, is that I now assign to everyone who comments. I hereby give you the letter "W," although you are free to decline I think since you actually did not comment to my post directly. We actually are supposed to come up with 10 rather than 5 things. So I still have work to do myself.

Dust Bowl

[gamoonbat]

I am not surprised to hear that they are not emphasized, although I understand that there is a fabulous course on "environmental history" taught at Emory. One of my students who are taking college-level American history at GPC told me they watched The Plow that broke the Plains, a classic documentary made in the 1940's which I am planning to work into my own course somewhere. Those who live in the midwest and Great Plains might be more familiar, but we have definitely forgotten about them in government as well as the academy. The Plow that broke the Plains makes a strong statement that the dust bowl (early 1930's) began when the areas being cultivated expanded to support economic expansion in World War I.