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This year is the 80th anniversary of John Steinbeck’s book, “The Grapes of Wrath.” In his novel, Steinbeck profiles the Joad family as they travel from Oklahoma to California, escaping the Dust Bowl, in search of work. Many families made this journey during the Depression era. In some communities, these Dust Bowl refugees were met with threats. But in others, like Weedpatch just south of Bakersfield, they were welcome. Weedpatch has been renovated from its tent-cabin days, but still houses migrant farm laborers during the picking seasons. This year, in the off-season, the camp is also sheltering displaced people, just as it did so long ago. Only a few of the original buildings remain, which are on the National Register of Historic Places . One of the protected buildings is a multi-purpose hall, where Saturday night dances and Sunday morning church services were held. At the front of the hall is the camp’s old sound system. “They would talk over it and everybody in the camp knew
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