Ron Hughart

74, Male

Exeter, CA

United States

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Something About Me and My Book:

Ron Hughart
The Dust Bowl epic didn’t end when Henry Fonda said goodbye to
Jane Darwell on a movie screen. It was, in fact, just beginning. Well
into the 1940s, the midwestern-and-southwestern exodus intensified
while within California, many migrant families like Ron Hughart’s
danced with poverty as they continued an internal migration that could
last for years, searching for work, searching for security.
Hughart’s writing offers an inside glimpse at that life, yearning
for the lost home while seeking a new one, children living in the
midst of those yearnings. Sensing the tension felt by his parents as
they sought to provide for their five youngsters, the child Ronnie is
nevertheless captured by wonders of the road--the Big Orange that
beckons alongside Highway 99, the airplane apparently captured
mid-crash on the roof of a restaurant near Fowler, and the enduring
magic of cool morning air during sizzling summers.
Hughart’s perspective, looking back on an Okie boyhood in
California’s agricultural cornucopia, the Great Central Valley, takes
readers into the cultural ferment engendered by the great migration,
a way of life that never quite abandoned Oklahoma, and enriched
California in the process. A new California
was being born as the experiences in these
pages unfold.
Gerald W. Haslam
Writer

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http://www.RonHughart.com

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