Where is the garden of eden ? That's the question that everybody is asking to himself .After the interpretation of the Garden is yours . The Okies probably thought it was California during the "Dust Bowl. I went to see again , during a hot summer morning , the adaptation of the John Steinbeck 'Novel , " The Grapes of Wrath " in a cinema in St Germain .
The Dust Bowl , or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936. Millions of acres of farmland became useless, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes; many of these families (often known as "Okies", since so many came from Oklahoma) traveled to California and other states, where they found economic conditions little better than those they had left. Owning no land, many traveled from farm to farm picking fruit and other crops at starvation wages.
This song Explain it better :
Woody Guthrie at age 19, met and married his first wife, Mary Jennings, with whom he had three children. With the advent of the Dust Bowl era, Guthrie left Texas, leaving Mary behind, and joined the thousands of Okies who were migrating to California looking for work. Many of his songs are concerned with the conditions faced by these working class people.
Guthrie was born in Okemah in , a small town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, to Nora Belle Tanner and Charles Edward Guthrie. His parents named him after Woodrow Wilson, then Governor of New Jersey and the Democratic candidate soon to be elected President of the United States.
Charles Guthrie was an industrious businessman, owning at one time up to 30 plots of land in Okfuskee County. He was actively involved in Oklahoma politics and was a Democratic candidate for office in the county. When Charles was making stump speeches, he would often be accompanied by his son .
I have the strong feeling that in an other way we're living again this horrible situation . When you see more and more peoples , in the streets , in a doorway , in the metro , under a bridge , it's a sign . There is no more Middle - Class , and we kind of know who's behind it . The pictures of Dorothea Lange tells a lot about the pain and the suffering of a whole generation of Okies living from Camp to Camp .
The John Ford movie " The Grapes of Wrath " is for me the beatifull association of the Three Artists I 've mention before . I'm gonna finish with the line i quoted, Henry Fonda as Tom Joad is about to lose his "Grand-Pa" on the side of the Road , helpless to burry him with dignity . And here is what they say :
" The Gouverment care more about the dead rather than the LIVING ."
One of my Favourite song of Woody . Woody Guthrie - Littl' John Henry
Message of Hope
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