
David Mark @DavidMarkDC
@KevinMKruse There's actually some overlap, as the cicadas emerged in 1936 as part of their 17-year cycle — amid the Dust Bowl, more or less. Spawned an Ogden Nash poem in the New Yorker, published on June 12, 1936, "Locust-Lovers, Attention!" — PolitiTweet.org