Dust Bowl

How bad is the Kansas drought? Among the most severe in recorded history. But some other years were more extreme.

I’m Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR: The book is Stormy Weather, by Paulette JilesOne of the pleasures of author Paulette Jiles’ historical fiction is…

Hi. I’m Valerie Mendoza talking to you today from one of my favorite places—my public library in Topeka. I just finished reading Stormy Weather by…

I’m Eric Meljac from West Texas A&M University for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club.Poet Benjamin Myers’ moving collection Black Sunday chronicles the…

This is Leslie VonHolten of Chase County, Kansas, with another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte.In Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles, we follow the lives of…

Hello, Radio Readers and Radio Reader wannabees! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City KS. We’re celebrating public radio on our High Plains. Did you know?…

Hello, I’m Dennis Garcia. I was born in 1951 in Garden City, Kansas. Today, I’d like to share with you a family story about two great historical events…

Radio Readers, we’re discussing The Food of a Younger Land edited by Mark Kurlansky as part of the 2017 Fall Read – Food and Story. I’m Meagan Zampieri…

Panhandle folks out for stroll last night were treated to a dust storm of Biblical proportions. Because of the darkness, no one really saw the magnitude…

There are a handful of people still around who remember the darkness that feel over Oklahoma 80 years ago. Black Sunday was commemorated at the Oklahoma…