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From the ashes of the Great Depression, the most popular agencies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal arose to give meaningful conservation work to millions of unemployed Americans. In the short span of ten years (1933-1943), these groups planned parks, built roads, fought forest fires, battled erosion, and constructed stone and log buildings that are still in use today. This book tells the story of the men enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Veterans Conservation Corps (VCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the National Youth Administration (NYA). In touching and humorous detail, it describes their accomplishments and recollections in Minnesota from the depths of the Great Depression to the end of their work during World War II. This book is also a guide to the hundreds of structures that remain in 27 of Minnesota's State Parks, including some of the most impressive buildings, bridges, dams and trails in the state. - Back cover.… (más)
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In honor and memory of those enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps, Veterans Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, and National Youth Administration, and of their families, and of the people who oversaw the camps and the work that was done.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
PROLOGUE The feeling of cool, damp rock under the hand; the echo of shoes shuffling across a cement floor; the deep, shady light inside at midday; the residual smell of thousands of campfires in a stone fireplace -- these impressions of stone and timber picnic shelters formed a vivid image in my mind when I was a child.
From the ashes of the Great Depression, the most popular agencies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal arose to give meaningful conservation work to millions of unemployed Americans. In the short span of ten years (1933-1943), these groups planned parks, built roads, fought forest fires, battled erosion, and constructed stone and log buildings that are still in use today. This book tells the story of the men enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Veterans Conservation Corps (VCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the National Youth Administration (NYA). In touching and humorous detail, it describes their accomplishments and recollections in Minnesota from the depths of the Great Depression to the end of their work during World War II. This book is also a guide to the hundreds of structures that remain in 27 of Minnesota's State Parks, including some of the most impressive buildings, bridges, dams and trails in the state. - Back cover.
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