“In their heads, as they move wearily from harvest to harvest, there is one urge and one overwhelming need, to acquire a little land again, and to settle on it and stop their wandering. One has only to go into the squatters’ camps where the families live on the ground and have no homes, no beds and no equipment; and one has only to look at the strong purposeful faces, often filled with pain and more often, when they see the corporation-held idle lands, filled with anger, to know that this new race is here to stay and that heed must be taken of it.”
~John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies
“Pray not for a lighter load but for a stronger back.”
~Phillip Brooks
Vivid reminders of the trials and tribulations that followed in the steps of migrant farmers at the turn of the 20th century, Mayhew Cabin, Nebraska City, NE
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