National Youth Summit on the Dust Bowl
Recorded: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 @ 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EDT
Duration: 75 min
In the 1930s drought and intensive farming in the Great Plains brought about dust storms, crop failure, and human misery in one of the worst ecological disasters in America’s history. The 2012 National Youth Summit will unpack this story and connect it with current issues of drought, agricultural sustainability, and national and global food security. The Summit will include segments from award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’s forthcoming film The Dust Bowl, and a discussion moderated by Huffington Post science correspondent Cara Santa Maria featuring: Ken Burns; Dust Bowl survivor Cal Crabill; USDA ecologist Debra Peters; 5th generation farmer Roy Bardole from Rippey, Iowa; and Glenn Roberts, farmer and founder of Anson Mills.
Presented in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Humanities, WETA television, and Smithsonian Affiliations.
Welcome
- Marc Pachter, Acting Director, National Museum of American History
- The Honorable Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture
- The Honorable Jim Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
Discussion: The History
- Cara Santa Maria, Host, Senior Science Correspondent, Huffington Post
- Ken Burns, Filmmaker
- Cal Crabill, Dust Bowl survivor
Discussion: The Legacy
- Cara Santa Maria, Host, Senior Science Correspondent, Huffington Post
- Roy Bardole, Farmer
- Deb Peters, Research Ecologist, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture
- Glenn Roberts, Founder, Anson Mills
Presenter(s)
Ken Burns
Documentarian
Ken Burns is a celebrated American documentarian who gradually amassed a considerable reputation and a devoted audience with a series of reassuringly traditional meditations on Americana.
Cal Crabill
Dust Bowl Survivor, Retired School-Teacher
Cal Crabill, who survived the Dust Bowl growing up in Holly, Colorado, near the Kansas border, is featured in the Ken Burns film The Dust Bowl.
Roy Bardole
5th Generation Farmer
Roy Bardole is a 5th generation farmer from Rippey, Iowa. Along with his two grown sons (Peter and Tim) and his wife Phyllis, Roy farms about 1,400 acres of soybeans and corn.
Deb Peters
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Deb Peters is a research ecologist for the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Peters works to improve the science of predicting and preventing ecological disasters.
Glenn Roberts
Founder, Anson Mills
Glenn Roberts is founder of Anson Mills in Columbia, South Carolina, which grows and mills one of the most diverse…more
