"Some people may not realize how bad it was. Between the tumbleweeds and the dust it piled up along fencerows. Fencerows, it would just actually pile up!
"Of course, when the crops didn't grow, there were many tumbleweeds around. And, of course, when the winds came along, they blew the tumbleweeds somewhere. And the fencerow would be the place it would stop. Well now, it was also blowing dust. And the dust would commingle with the tumbleweeds. It wasn't a pleasant sight."
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Walter Schmitt is a first generation American. His father was immigrated from Germany and his mother from Czechoslovakia. He grew up in his father's blacksmith shop in Gresham, Nebraska. He graduated from high school in 1930 and went to work with his father. After his father died, he kept the shop open until his health failed in the early 1990s. Walter passed on in 2008 and left over $3.5 million to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for scholarships.
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