John Steinbeck: The Life of the Party Or: At least he didn’t die in a fiery mental hospital blaze!!
No food
No home
No dignity
1932? 2011?
Dust Storm in Colorado
Dust Storm: South Dakota
Standing in a Dust Storm
RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
No mercy.
Farm Foreclosure Sale
Leaving for California
The Mother Road: Route 66
All That They Own
Broken Down in South Dakota
It’s a car, and it’s a camper!
Lennie or George?
Living in the Suburbs?
“Give me grammar or give me death!”
18 Year Old Migrant Mother
Dorothea Lange captures poverty on film
Migrant Mother: Iconic image by Dorothea Lange, 1936
Mrs. Sackett’s House!!
Dinner time at Andy Buntrocks
You want coffee? I’ll give you COFFEE??!!!.
Not so long ago…
Not so far away….
Mrs. Sackett cleans up Room 503 after a day at school
Grapes of Wrath: Be afraid, be very afraid! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stores… His truth is marching on.
Of Mice and Men: Or just be sad (get the Kleenex box!)
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need, go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones (John Steinbeck)
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck: Thanks for the misery! (and nice moustache)