DISCUSSION PROMPTS
for Chapter 24:
· Explain the landowners'
plot to destroy the Weedpatch camp.
· What is the idea behind the "turkey
shoot" proposed at the end of the chapter?
Related web sites:
More recordings from The Library of Congress collection "Voices
of the Dustbowl." Both of these are from the Arvin FSA Camp,
August 1941:
- The Camp Council
discusses speed limits, and plans for a Saturday
Night Dance.
- An unknown man provides music for dancing
with an a cappela
rendition of "Old Dan Tucker."
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Rothstein, Arthur. “Saturday night dance.
Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California.”
1940. America from the Great Depression to
WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945
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