DESCRIPTION:
Three songs from the Kat Eggleston's play "The Cyclone Line". First performed November 4, 2016 in the Katherine L. White Hall at Vashon Center for the Arts on Vashon Island, Washington. Kat describes the songs below:

RAIN

My father was born in Michigan in 1923. When his family moved back to
their original home in Oklahoma five years later, dad met kids who had
never seen rain. This song is a recounting of his attempts to describe
rain and the difference it could make to the dry devastation of the
dustbowl.


AFRICA

As a kid in the dustbowl, dad used his terrific imagination to color a
world that had gone grey. Because of Tarzan and another favorite character
in the Sunday comics, he loved to pretend that the landscape around his
house was actually Africa. I picture him talking to his youngest sister,
trying to bring a sense of adventure to her life.


THE CYCLONE LINE

In the Oklahoma dustbowl, the telephone was often called the cyclone line.
It was a party line, stretched over the barbed wire fence, and the when
cyclones or dust storms kicked up, the neighbors would all get on the
line, their voices becoming ghostly and distant as more of them joined in.
The image is a powerful one that I use to listen to the voices of the past
and bring them forward to our lives today.