Wikipedia Trail: From the Bermuda Triangle to The Grapes of Wrath

(Bermuda Triangle)

There was an article on the Bermuda Triangle on the class Twitter page so I started my Wikipedia trail began here. The Bermuda Triangle is also called the Devil's Triangle and is the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean. Aircraft's and ships are said to disappear here. The earliest suggestion of disappearances in the triangle were published by Edward Van Winkle Jones in September 17, 1950 in The Miami Herald. The Miami Herald is where the trail let next. The newspaper was founded by the McClatchy Company in 1903 and now employs over 800 people. It almost went out of business in the 1930's during the Great Depression but recovered. The Great Depression began in 1929 when the  stock market crashed and lasted until the late 1930's. Unemployment rates rose and and international trade dropped. Many books were written about the Great Depression including The Grapes of Wrath. The Grapes of Wrath was written by John Steinbeck in 1939 and it is set in the Great Depression. The family in the book is forced from their Oklahoma home by drought and travels to California to seek a job and a future.