Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Pictures from Photoshoot
Thanks, everyone, for a fun shoot!
Final Art Card Image from Analee Fuentes
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Think Black Tuesday was bad?
Well, what about Black Sunday?
So April 14th, 1935 may not have been as famous as Black Tuesday but it certainly left its own impressions (hence the poor guy's tractor you see to your right). Anyway, this site gives some info about what was going on within the Dust Bowl (and how it got that name) along with interviews from people who went through all of this mad jazz. If you look at the navigation bar, there's also some info about hitchhikers and hoboes who traveled by rail (all of which could apply to Mary, Consuelo/Raul, Eduardo, and Miguel). Anyway, give this site a peek when you have time!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Home Sweet Home
"Shelters were made of almost every conceivable thing - burlap, canvas, palm branches." - a California minister's report of a labor camp in the Imperial Valley. We have seen photographs of shacks made from cardboard, framed paintings on canvas, crate boxes, doors...
Unfortunately, this kind of housing was the norm for the migrant labor camps where itinerant farm workers lived, from one farm to the next. For more information, read: Picture This: The Depression Era, published the by the Oakland Museum of California.
These shacks have served as the inspiration for our scenic design by Drew Foster; they are sad images of poverty and yet resourceful testaments to the will to survive.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Train Orphans
In
Mary was one of those children who, surrendered by her own mother, became a ward of the court and was placed on a train going West.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
About the song "La Peregrinación"
http://www.farmworkermovement.us/ufwarchives/elmalcriado/1966/April%2010,%201966.pdf