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Published April 23, 2008 03:23 pm - COLUMBUS, Kan. — Priscilla Henning began her talk by telling of a quandary faced by Thelma Warner in 1935 in Syracuse, Kan. Woman recounts Dust Bowl w/ link to Kansas Dust Bowl photos, informationBy Roger McKinney rmckinney@joplinglobe.com COLUMBUS, Kan. — Priscilla Henning began her talk by telling of a quandary faced by Thelma Warner in 1935 in Syracuse, Kan. Warner’s baby was crying and covered with dust from a dust storm. A bucket of water in the house was so dirty from the storm that Warner used a dry cloth to wipe her baby. “I just wiped off what I could and let him go back to sleep,” Warner told Henning. Henning, of Weir, is pursuing her master’s degree in American history at Pittsburg State University. Her thesis topic is the experiences of women in southwest Kansas during the Dust Bowl years. She gave her talk Wednesday at the Kansas State University Extension office in Columbus during the Family and Community Education Council spring tea. Henning has interviewed 30 women from Kansas who lived through the Dust Bowl. Her talk was accompanied by a photo presentation. “I wanted to know how women coped during those times,” Henning said. She told of Ione Lewis, who went into labor as a dust storm approached in 1935. The doctor made it into town, but the storm prevented him from getting to her house. Her son, Keith, was born in her house during the storm. Lewis told Henning that her son always had “Dusty” as a nickname. Henning said the Dust Bowl primarily was in western Kansas, eastern Colorado, eastern New Mexico, and the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. It lasted from 1932 to 1937. She said the storms weren’t constant, but they usually struck during January, February, March and April. The Dust Bowl was caused by overcultivation of what previously had been grassland, she said. She said Amy Finkenbinder told her of her neighbors being found dead after a dust storm. Another woman told her that people couldn’t grow gardens, and whatever water they had to spare went to livestock. “Many women served only one meal a day,” Henning said. Clothes that were dried on clotheslines had a gray tinge from the dust. 
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