“We lived in a little two room house. Had a wood stove that we cooked black-eyed peas on. We ate
so many black-eyed peas that I never wanted to see another one…Your kids would cry for something
to eat and you couldn’t get it. I just prayed and prayed and prayed all the time that God would
take care of us and not let my children starve. All our people left here. They lived in California. But
we were so poor that we couldn’t have went to California or nowhere else.”
~Nettie Featherston, taken from Bill Ganzel’s ‘Dust Bowl Descent’
Abandoned farmhouse, west of Cowles, NE
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