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Fort Bend County Texas
Calendar of Events for Arcola, Beasley, Fairchilds, Fulshear, Houston, Katy,
Kendleton, Meadows Place, Missouri City, Needville, Orchard, Pleak, Richmond,
Rosenberg, Simonton, Stafford, Sugar Land, Thompsons and other cities near Fort
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Cinco Ranch Night Readers - March Meeting
Fort Bend County Libraries |
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3/18/2010
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07:00 PM until 08:00 PM |
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Cinco Ranch Branch Library, Conference Room 2
2620 Commercial Center Blvd
Katy, Tx 77494  |
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Michele Delmar |
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www.fortbend.lib.tx.us |
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Fort Bend County Libraries invites booklovers to attend the next meeting of the Night Readers book club, on Thursday, March 18, beginning at 7:00 pm, in Conference Room 2, at the Cinco Ranch Branch, 2620 Commercial Center Blvd. in Katy. The book to be discussed is "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl," written by prize-winning author and reporter Timothy Egan.
In this nonfiction account, Egan masterfully relates accounts of the events leading up to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the people who survived it, and the measures taken to correct an ecological and economic disaster that resulted from irresponsible public policy and nature’s own fury. As far back as 1820, explorers advised against use of the Great Plains for solely agricultural purposes. In the late 19th century, the land also proved inhospitable for commercial cattle ranching because of the severe weather that regularly swept the plains. In the 1910s and ‘20s, however, land speculators enticed would-be farmers to settle the unusable land, with promises of land ownership and riches to be made by WWI’s inflated grain prices. Misuse of the land, coupled with instability in the country’s financial sector, led to one of the worst disasters in American history.
Timothy Egan is a national correspondent on environmental issues for the "New York Times." He has written five books and has received several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.
Copies of the book are available at the checkout desk. Anyone interested in joining this literary-review club is invited to attend. For more information, call the branch library at 281-395-1311.
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