The last dust storm

I. Bakersfield theology: November evening Bible stories April 17, 1987 Political offer Pit stop Spiritual direction Bakersfield theology My aunt assesses a polished suitor After the Basque fair in Nevada Jilted The lottery Remembering Mama while washing gift cups Instructions: July 21, 1993 Grandpa's Stetson Alias Invitation to celebration of University Press Magazine Longevity Hired hand from Brooklyn, 1926 Family connections Blue flowers Nine-year-old Oklahoman addicted to poetry II. News learned recently: Subject matter Incident before visiting professor's lecture Library patrons Raunchy teeters Xenophobic kinfolks Treasure recovered in a cleaning spree A weather eye Moonlighting The disciples of Big Muddy Expiation on Cherry Avenue A poor woman's private devotions Day and night My city cousin Touring America Profile of a lady remembered Folk medicine A mother and son Error in judgement Reading a name thought to be defunct Lament for passing names of character News learned recently about surviving Dust Bowl neighbors

III. Plenitude: Aftermath of war

Unmatched

A country dream maker

Georgia bride in territorial Oklahoma

Holiday colors

Calling cows

Oil field worker remembering his mother's dinners (1925)

Family passage

Our neighbor Neil

Widower and son, 1926

Seeking insight

Breaking the drought

Plenitude

Creta

A woman disappears

Funeral of a Portuguese milker

The venerable lady in ICU

Mondo Pêna's funeral

Waiting for the fire

Child training

The healing

IV. 1939 in California: Art in the Great Society

Mechanic saint

Phiroze Patel's daughters

Nausea on Thursday

Patron of Little Store in Oregon bypassed by Freeway, May 14, 1988

Thinking of red squirrels

It figures

Having tea with Millicent Avery, a patriot

My surprise reception

A woman's accomodations

Winds of my life

Writing assignment

The jokester

Merced Theater, 1936

Holiday accomodations

Changing employmentt

Benefits

Who else

Hannah Cullhane

The Royal Order of CCC

A flashback of kinfolks

Dustbowl prophet

Last dust storm before leaving Oklahome, 1934.