Tiffani Egnor, Cultural Development Programs and Operations Manager at the Chandler Museum, speaks with host Melina Zuniga about their current exhibits, Picturing Home: Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler and In the Fields of the North. With everything from maps to artifacts and interactive tools, this exhibit has been ten years in the making.
Highlights:
- The ‘Dust Bowl” is a term coined for storms that occurred across the southern plains in the 1920s-30s caused by drought and farming that forced people to leave their homes.
- A mass exodus of families heading toward California often travelled through Chandler, some stayed for work and never left. Others stayed briefly and continued on to find work elsewhere.
- Famous government photographers, Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee, captured images of Chandler during this time period.
- In the Fields of the North is a travelling exhibit which depicts migrant farm workers from the 1980s-2000s. This subject is complementary to Picturing Home.
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