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Ken Cook

Ken Cook is president of Environmental Working Group, a public interest research and advocacy organization known for its Farm Subsidy Database. The author of dozens of articles, opinion pieces and reports on agricultural, public health and environmental topics, "[Cook's] fingerprints can be found on nearly two decades of U.S. farm law" (Omaha World Herald). Read more about Ken.

Craig Cox

Craig Cox is EWG Midwest Vice President. He Mulches from EWG's office in Ames, IA. Prior to EWG, Craig served as Executive Director of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and was Acting USDA Deputy Under-Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and Special Assistant to the Chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Michelle Perez

Michelle Perez is EWG's Senior Agriculture Analyst. She has a BA in Biology from Occidental, a Masters from the University of Maryland (UMD) and is finishing up a PhD in agricultural-environmental policy at UMD.

Don Carr

Don Carr is EWG's Press Secretary for agriculture and public lands issues. Prior to EWG, Don worked as a Communications Director for the DNC in his home state of South Dakota and on former Senate Leader Tom Daschle's 2004 reelection campaign.

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Remembering Black Sunday: April 14, 1935


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Liberal, Kansas, 14 April 1935. (Kansas State Historical Society)

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Black Sunday April 14, 1935. The dust storm that turned day into night. Many believed the world was coming to an end.

Those photos and captions are from the site of the USDA Wind Erosion Research Unit (WERU), in cooperation with Kansas State University.

The story is movingly told in images, text and podcasts at Wessel's Living History Farm. They credit the term "dust bowl" to a reporter with the Associated Press.

Any idea who it was who wrote this?

"Three little words achingly familiar on the Western farmer's tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent – if it rains."

Posted by Cook on April 14, 2007 5:27 AM |

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