Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects for Youth

Period of Performance

7/1/1980 - 8/31/1981

Funding Totals

$24,480.00 (approved)
$17,887.00 (awarded)


The Dust Bowl: An Oral History

FAIN: GZ-*2057-80

Adams County Historical Society (Hastings, NE 68901)
Barbara J. Minshall (Project Director: January 1980 to October 1990)

To support a project in which up to 3,000 12-16 year olds will receive an introduction to the Dust Bowl era by Great Plains historians and instruction in specific oral history techniques. Students will then tape interviews with people who lived through the era for inclusion in local archives.