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December 18, 2015December 18, 2015 C.H. Armstrong

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C.H. (Cathie) Armstrong is 1992 graduate of the University of Oklahoma and is the author of THE EDGE OF NOWHERE (Penner, 2016), ROAM (Central Avenue, Feb. 5, 2019) and co-author of DÉJÀ YOU: STORIES OF SECOND CHANCES. She is represented by Tina P. Schwartz at The Purcell Agency, LLC. View all posts by C.H. Armstrong

Photo Credit: Dorthea Lange

Four of my grandparents’ combined fourteen children. These four were their first together. Not pictured are the five he brought to the marriage, and the five that came after this photo was taken.

Front Row: Bill and Geraldine

Second Row: Shirley and Ed (My Daddy)

Crop field (medium format)

My Grandfather – William Jefferson Hedrick

My grandmother – Edna Hall Hedrick Golden – in her later years.

$Only a small fraction of the Hedrick Clan, founded by my grandmother and her sister-in-law, Verlie.$

Only a small fraction of the Hedrick Clan, founded by my grandmother and her sister-in-law, Verlie.

Newspaper Announcing the 1929 Stock Market Crash Image Source: http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/099/desktop-1414612214.jpg

The Great Depression Image Source: http://letsgetdepressed.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/4/4/2344837/2595580.jpeg

Black Sunday – April 14, 1935 Largest Dust Storm of the Era to Hit Oklahoma Soil Image Source: http://www.news9.com/story/12303834/wednesday-is-75th-anniversary-of-black-sunday-in-oklahoma

Oklahoma State Flag Image Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Oklahoma.svg

“Abandoned farmstead in the Dust Bowl region of Oklahoma, showing the effects of wind erosion, 1937” Image Source: http://www.britannica.com/media/full/174462/96105

“Migrant Mother” fleeing the Dust Bowl Photo Credit: Dorthea Lange (1936)

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