There aren’t many signs marking their achievements and their numbers are dwindling daily. But the work undertaken by the enrollees of the Civilian Conservation Corps contributed much to California, ...
The Civilian Conservation Corps was part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Enrollees became known as the "tree army" because of how many they planted — more than 2 billion. Today's state and national ...
Edward L. Lindsey credits the Civilian Conservation Corps with shaping his life, and saving a nation. At 93, this East Side resident calls the Great Depression years among the greatest of his life.
A story of the only Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in Chautauqua County has recently been published by municipal historian, Pamela Brown. Legacy of Labor: The Story of the Only Conservation Corps ...
POINT PLEASANT — On June 23, a reunion of Civilian Conservation Corps alumni, family and friends will meet at 10 a.m. at Camp Sacandaga at 117 Page St. (Route 8) in Point Pleasant, near Speculator.
NEW MARLBOROUGH — Just off Route 183, there’s a circle carved out of the trees in the Sandisfield State Forest where a stone memorial and a flagpole stand for a tragedy long since past. Ten years ago, ...
Ernest Brewer, left, and John Phillips trade stories during a Civilian Conservation Corps reunion tour of the Ninemile Ranger Station on Friday. Brewer and Phillips are among the nine men who served ...
Outside Madrid Middle School, in El Monte, in the back amidst overgrown brush, debris and a blighted wall, they celebrate. Not with a part, but with labor. This is how 115 members of the California ...
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