12.31.2010

Our Depression, Less Than Great

Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between
Bakersfield and Famoso, California
.
Dorothea Lange, 1939
Library of Congress FSA/OWI Archive
Regarding our government's economic priorities, the routinely brilliant image and text of Driftglass' take on our own Depression—"Napa Valley Grapes of Wrath"—says it all.

With a new year ahead, I plan to start focusing on some more recent history.


In preparation for what's coming up in 2011.

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