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Article: Dust bowl days stuck in memories.
- Article from:
- Clovis News Journal (Clovis, NM)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2006
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Byline: Marlena Hartz
Aug. 26--Traces of their frontier life are hidden. They share two rooms, Nos. 19 and 21, at the end of a sterile hallway in a home for the old.
When she digs the photo album from its resting place, the bottom of a drawer, those times drift into the room. "There was nothing to keep the wind and dirt out," remembered Foy Bailey, 92, his khaki pants and plaid shirt loose on his weathered frame. Dirt invaded everything. It burrowed under fingernails, snuggled into the pores of skin, blackened the sky so dark buses and cars halted in their path and people dared not leave their homes, he said. "It was scary," said Grace ...
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