A farm with huge dust cloud approaching is seen during a dust storm on April 14, 1935 near Boise City, Okla., as seen in "The Dust Bowl" coming to PBS Nov. 18 and 19.
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The Oklahoma Educational Television Authority is holding a free public preview of acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns' latest documentary "The Dust Bowl" at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at the OSU-Tulsa Student Auditorium, 700 N. Greenwood Ave.
There will be limited seating. To reserve seating space, call 405-841-9212 or email abarcum@oeta.tv. Reservations are recommended but not required.
Writer/producer Dayton Duncan will be attending the event, and there will be a question-and-answer session following the screening.
"The Dust Bowl" is set to air nationally at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 and 19 on KOED, channel 11 in Tulsa.
The film, from acclaimed filmmaker Burns ("The Civil War," "Jazz" and "Baseball") tells the stories of people who lived through the period, their experience of the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history.
The two-part, four-hour film documents the history and causes of the dust bowl, but focuses primarily on the personal stories of survival – how Oklahomans lived, worked and persevered, according to press information.
During the decade-long drought that turned the southern Plains into the Dust Bowl, the hardest hit area was centered on Boise City, Okla., in a part of the Panhandle formerly known as No Man’s Land. And the worst storm of all hit on Palm Sunday, April 14, 1935 — a day remembered as Black Sunday.
The screening is part of the statewide Oklahoma Dust Bowl Project led by OETA-The Oklahoma Network and the Oklahoma Conservation Partnership, consisting of the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts (OACD), the Oklahoma Conservation Commission and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers at OSU-Tulsa is also a partner for the Tulsa screening.
For more information on the project, go online to
tulsaworld.com/oetadustbowlHere's a preview of the documentary:
Watch The Dust Bowl Preview on PBS. See more from The Dust Bowl.
