Stay updated with breaking news from Dalhart texan. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Travel back to the 1930s, when dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into desert. Disease, hardship and death followed, yet people stayed, refusing to give up on their land and way of life. ....
Revisit the story of the dust bowl and hear the remarkable story of the determined people who endured drought, dust, disease and even death for nearly a decade. Tune in or livestream ‘American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl’ Wed, Aug. 31 at 9pm on WSIU TV. ....
Travel back to the 1930s, when dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into desert. Disease, hardship and death followed, yet people stayed, refusing to give up on their land and way of life. ....
DOUG HENSLEY If there is one place where newspapers could historically lose friends, it was on the obituary page. That part of the business, like so many others, has changed dramatically in the past 10 or so years, but there are still some aspects worth shining a little light on these days. For many years, the obituary held a hallowed place in the pages of hometown papers. Properly writing an obituary was taught in journalism classes, and those new to the business often found themselves on the obit desk in the early stages of their career. Part of the thinking by those more seasoned and higher on the newsroom food chain said if a journalist could be trusted with the delicate and important details of an obituary, they could be trusted with bigger matters (by editors inside and readers outside the newsroom). ....