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The Sweep – Antique London Rebus Puzzle

Want to solve a puzzle? Unfortunately it is pretty much impossible for me since most of the symbols are archaic/indecipherable. (For instance, the first tree symbol is a Yew tree, and that black thing before the next tree is an Awl.) If you can’t get it that’s okay. The answer is at the bottom.

Dust Bowl, the Purple Moon

Watching a clip from absurdist space western/musical The American Astronaut [link: "It's a real toilet, so be careful!"], I thought about alien landscapes and black and white antique photographs, and I was reminded of the amazing pictures taken of the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl being when the prairie lands were farmed to death and [...]