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• AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Surviving the Dust Bowl
  "Surviving the Dust Bowl" is the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease--even death--for nearly a decade. PBS' American Experience has brought stories of the people and events that shaped this country into nearly eight million homes each week. The series brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation.
• I Hear America Singing
  Read about Walker Evans, photographer in the Farm Securities Administration.
• Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland
  Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland is a film about the rural past and was inspired by photographer and essayist William Gabler's beautiful book of classic farmhouses, Death of the Dream. The one-hour documentary, featuring stunning photography, weaves a tapestry combining images of vanishing farmhouses with stories of historians, farm experts, and people who lived "the dream" of life on the farm. Part celebration and part bittersweet elegy, Death of the Dream provides a window towards the past, while looking towards the future.
• The Farmer's Wife
  Acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland takes a look deep inside the passionate, yet troubled marriage of Juanita and Darrel Buschkoetter, a young farm couple in rural Nebraska facing the loss of everything they hold dear. Darrel and Juanita tell their own story, in their own words, without the intrusion of a narrator. It unfolds before our eyes, as it is happening.
• People's Century
  As the twentieth century rushed toward its conclusion, People's Century looks back at the story of our times. The twenty-six part PBS series and Web site offers new insight into the turbulent events of those hundred years through the revealing personal testimony of the people who were there.
• Brother, Can You Spare A Billion? The Story of Jesse H. Jones
  Jesse H. Jones shaped a major American city, laid the groundwork for the modern Red Cross, was one of the most powerful figures in world finance in the 1930s, and prepared America for war. Without him American capitalism might have been lost in the depths of the Great Depression.
• The Afternoon Magazine on WILL/AM-580
  Listen to an interview with Leslie A. Loveless, author of A Bountiful Harvest The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965. THE AFTERNOON MAGAZINE is a radio program on WILL/AM-580 with Celeste Quinn, host/producer, produced by Harriet Williamson (requires RealPlayer). Click on the link entitled "A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST: THE MIDWESTERN FARM PHOTOGRAPHS OF PETE WETTACH, 1925-1965" to hear the full interview.
• Picture Perfect: Iowa in the 1940s
  Photographs show the faces, fields and porches of small-town America before World War II and stand as a historical record of both a bygone time and a rural Iowa that's fading away. Only Iowa Public Television brings you this Iowa story.

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