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Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dustbowl #GreatDepression #JohnSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #refugees #poverty #fiction #books #author #writer #Oklahoma #texas

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Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dustbowl #GreatDepression #JohnSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #refugees #poverty #fiction #books #author #writer #Oklahoma #texas @bookstadon

The "Black Sunday" dust storm approaches Spearman in northern Texas, April 14, 1935. Looks like a 100-foot tsunami of dust rolling through town. By Monthly Weather Review, Volume 63, April 1935, p. 148. - https://photolib.noaa.gov/Collections/National-Weather-Service/Meteorological-Monsters/Dust/emodule/647/eitem/3025(original upload: http://gimp-savvy.com/cgi-bin/img.cgi?noabU7tT7yk5VKc5780, a no longer working link)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8017282


I visited 21 #abandoned locations in Pennsylvania, documenting them with 135 fascinating photographs. These photos were published in my book "Abandoned Pennsylvania".

🌟 Here is my Top 10 locations from that amazing trip- https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/blog/top-10-abandoned-locations-in-pennsylvania/

Available on Amazon, online book sellers, and all major brick and mortar bookshops. Autographed copies are available on my website πŸ’™

#abandonedamerica #Photography #Pennsylvania #Urbex #AbandonedPA #photography #Fotomontag #author
Disused library Old boxing ring
Derelict church Trolley car graveyard


#HappyNewYear! I’m Jon Reed (@jonreed), and I founded Publishing Talk in 2007. It’s an educational website for #authors, and includes advice on #writing, getting published, #SelfPublishing and marketing books. I’m an #author myself, and was a #publisher for 10 years.

Been on the bird site for years, but this feels like a better place to build a #WritingCommunity.

Interested in boosting #WritingTips and other advice for authors here - as well as sharing blog posts. #AmWriting #Introduction


The Shit No One Tells You About Writing β€” hosted by #author Bianca Marais and features #query letter evaluations with agents at PS Literary and interviews with #authors talking about the real trenches shit of #publishing

https://www.theshitaboutwriting.com

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