Loren Eiseley's Reflections on the Depression
Nebraska Stories
Air Date: 11/15/2009
In the 1930s, as the world lay shadowed by the Great Depression, jobless men drifted across America in search of work. At just 19, Loren Eiseley joined them - hopping freight trains into the unknown. In the rhythm of the rails and the vast silence between towns, he discovered not only a sense of freedom, but the beginnings of the voice that would one day echo through science and literature.