The following are activities that we are aware of as planned events or events that are in a planning stage for sometime in 2008 to March 2009.

Currently a Traveling Photo Exhibit “This Great Nation Will Endure” from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Library and Museum is on display. Scheduling can be handled through Lynn Bassanese by email at lynn.bassanese@nara.gov.

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Events Coming For The Months of June-July

 

Arizona

Grand Canyon: May 31-Oct. 31 Exhibit at the South Rim Village Kolb Studio. Free.
 

Washington DC

June Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA) introduced a Congressional Resolution recently to honor the accomplishments of the New Deal nationwide during June 2008. Please request (call, email, write) your own Congresspersons NOW to contact her office in DC to let them know that they are interested in co-sponsoring this resolution. It will be a means of having your Congresspersons shine back home while honoring the New Deal in your state. We need at least 50 co-sponsors. Time is of the essence—so please make those contacts to help NNDPA obtain this national recognition for the 75 New Deal years later.

New Mexico

June 27   Conchas Lake State Park: Program about the dam and lake’s history built in 1935-39 by the CCC and WPA will be featured starting at 10 am. Site is on NM 104 about 20 miles north of Tucumcari. Contact cynthia.i.piirto@usace.army.mil.

June 13-27 Albuquerque: UNM School of Architecture and Planning is sponsoring three one week long courses on preservation topics. www.unm.edu:hprinst@unm.edu or 505-277-0071.

July 4 Quemado: 1930’s rock Jailhouse in downtown area will host the new New Deal photo exhibit sponsored by the NM Chapter of NNDPA.

July 5 Santa Fe: Book signing at Garcia Street Bookstore-11-2

NEW DEAL: A 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: By Kathryn Flynn with Richard Polese. New book about all the New Deal programs nationwide.

Idaho

July 12 Idaho’s First State Park: will be 100 years and a celebration is planned involving the CCC Legacy Chapter 41’s planting a tree and other activities to remember their history of developing the park See CCC Legacy website, click on National Activties and then click on Idaho.
 

North Carolina

June 19 Blue Ridge Parkway---Claxton Farm, Weaverwille, NC 6-10 p.m.

FDR (depicted) will be on hand to honor the CCC alumni along with the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation who are hosting a 75th anniversary event. The Foundation wants to honor the CCC alumni and Dr. Harley Jolley, author of his newest book, That Magnificent Army of Youth and Peace: The Civilian Conservation Corps in North Carolina, 1933- 1942. For reservations or information, call 336-721-0260 or email lfletcher@BRPFountion.org.

The CCC implemented many of the landscaping construction projects along the Blue Ridge Parkway following road construction. Four CCC camps were located along the Parkway but only one was in North Carolina. Their contributions there and in other parts of North Carolina are legendary extending from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and to Nantahala to Cape Hatteras.
 

Michigan

Now thru August 24, 08 Michigan State University Museum, located on the campus, has a New Deal exhibit entitled “The Federal Art Project: Supporting Good Artists in Bad Times” It features WPA from public works projects in Michigan and on the MSC campus during the 1930-40’s. Included is rustic furniture, skis, snowshoes, fishing creels and decorative arts utilizing traditional native materials and craft techniques. Miniature dolls dressed in detailed period costumes and a set of miniature pieces of historic furniture created by the MSC home economics students and barn models are also included along with a large relief map of the campus created in 1941 by WPA workers. The campus will also be giving new focus on the various sculptures throughout the campus done by FAP artists Samuel Cashwan and Leonard Jungwirth. Other works they did for the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing can be viewed in the exhibit and one done in limestone in 1933 by Jungwirth features a “Worker with a Shovel.”

Oklahoma

June 4-6 Ponca City : State Historical Preservation Annual Conference.. City Hall, 516 East Grand Ave.

Pennsylvania

July 7 Somerset: Laurel Hill State Park—Dedication of new CCC Worker Statue.
 

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ALABAMA 

CCC activity—Eagle Scout Grant Atkinson is raising funds for a CCC Worker Statue for Cheaha State Park and is also working with state schools to develop some educational materials on the New Deal for use in the state schools (patterned after Virginia). Contact: 205-664-3959.

Scout Atkinson is also working with state schools to develop some educational materials on the New Deal for use in the state schools (patterned also after Virginia) and plans to have March 31 declared CCC Day in Alabama. Contact: 205) 664-3959

Forest Service activity (tentative)—8th Region of USForest Service is seeking information from other National Forests within the region to document CCC activity in the south east forests.

ALASKA

      1. Anchorage—WPA art exhibit at museum.

      2. Palmer ---This is a New Deal Resettlement town and will be showing off their community. Wayne Bouwens and Gerry Keeling at Colony House (907) 745-1935.

      3. Sitka National Historical Park— Come view their CCC Native totem pole carving project, a CCC archaeological investigation of a key site of Russian America and the WPA Alaska Art Project.(Southeast Alaska).Contact: (907) 747-0132.

      4. Wells Fargo— Alaska Heritage Museum has a permanent display of tokens from the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation colony in the Matanuska Valley. Contact (907) 265-2834.

      5. Alaska Travel Industry Association—Contact Rindi White at 1-800-327-9372

ARIZONA  

Colossal Cave Activity—Alumni and family members joined the public during a gathering that included honoring the CCC alumni, live music, New Deal history presentations, living history, hands on activities and camp lunch.

CCC Chapter 44—is also developing a sponsored CCC writing contest for young people to participate in…..looking at the CCC from a scholarly perspective.

Showlow Historical Society—July12 program. Kathryn Flynn, NNDPA Exec. Director, Speaker.

A New Deal in Arizona Catalog and website is in process.  This is scheduled to include at least 100 New Deal projects and is entitled “The New Deal in Arizona: Connections to our Historic Landscape.” Contact: JJ Lamb at Colossal Cave, jjambken@yahoo.com

Colossal Cave Mountain Park—May 3, 2008--a 75th celebration is planned. Contact: jjambken@yahoo.com

Grand Canyon National Park—75th anniversary activities “Saving the Park and Saving the Boys, the CCC at Grand Canyon, 1933-42”  An exhibit will be on display May 31-Oct. 31 at the South Rim Village Kolb Studio –free.  A symposium will take place on May 30 featuring scholars and a panel of CCC enrollees and history walks. Registration begins on Jan. 31, 2008 at www.nps.gov/grca/historyculture/ccc.htm

Window Rock—Navajo Nation Historic Preservation –Contact Lillian Makeda at 928) 871-7145 for activities information.

ARKANSAS---NOTHING YET

CALIFORNIA 

              Update: Living New Deal Project: (Add to existing material) Speakers Bureau offerings available

Living New Deal Project based in Berkeley— offers a Speakers Bureau and new publication.. It is continuing to capture and map the New Deal Legacy in California.  The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley is hosting the website (http://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu) which is getting more user friendly every day. Speakers Bureau offerings available

Laborfest— Berkeley –a tour event with New Deal sites featured.

CA. Nat. Parks—starting to work up plans for a Parks/New Deal Touring Map identifying national parks involved with the New Deal. Hope this will encompass the whole Pacific Region of the Parks.

San Geronimo—San Geronimo Valley Community Center. WPA Art exhibit and display of Maricue Del Mue mural. Possible guest lecturers. Contact: (415) 488-8888 #252.
An exhibit of prints by Maurice del Mue murals was held on March 28 with the exhibit continuing until May 3. The funds received from the sale of the prints will be used to finance the restoration of the SGVCC mural. The center is located at 130 8th St. in San Francisco. Contact Judith@sfelecticworks.com or call 415.29-2014 cell.

Mount Tamalpais: Last April three members of the CCC alumni were honored at the Mountain Theater, a large, rock amphitheater built between 1936  by the CCC. Also present were the employees of the CA State Parks and CA Conservation Corp, the newer CCC type program that continues the legacy of the CCC in California. The amphitheater seats 4,000 on serpentine stones and continues to be used for weddings, family reunions and theater performances.

COLORADO

1. A New Deal for the New Deal—Colorado Chapter of NNDPA is or has sponsored a variety of activities in Colorado Springs and Manitou. Check with Barbara Dimond at 710) 685-9286 or leg-diamond@comcast.net for information about events including:

a. Afficianado Luncheon reading letters of Archie Musick, deceased New Deal artist

b. City Auditorium—Chauttauqua presentation of FDR by Richard Marold.and reception commemorating the 75th anniversary of the New Deal and honoring CCC alumni and local New Deal artist, Eric Bransby.

c. America Eats—program about New Deal foods.

d. Possible musical and theater activities including a puppet program

e. Pioneer Museum –panel presentation about New Deal history in Colorado Springs

 

Manitou Springs--Walking Tour of New Deal sites

Colorado Springs

a. Pioneer Museum –Colorado Springs—panel presentation

b. Afficianado Luncheon—Reading of New Deal artist’s letters

c. City Auditorium—Event focusing on the two New Deal murals that have    been restored.

d. Chattauqua Presentation—FDR by Richard Marold possibly at PEO House

e. America Eats—program about New Deal foods

f . Possible new play lets done with the National Playwright Competition

g. Considering a musical event

h. Possible puppet program

i. Pueblo—activities being discussed.

j. Eastern Plains area—Map of New Deal sites.
 

Colorado Springs—The New Deal for the New Deal, an NNDPA chapter in Colorado Springs, will be having their 75th Kick Off Activity on May 8 at the historic Colorado Springs City Auditorium at 5:30. The program will feature a Chautauqua presentation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt by Richard Marold to be followed by a sharing by Kathryn Flynn, Executive Director of the NNDPA, of the activities that are going on around the country to celebrate the 75th anniversary. Known participants in any of the New Deal programs between 1933-43 will be honored and hopefully these individuals will contact Barbara Dimond at 719) 685-9286 or at leg-diamond@comcast.com prior to the event. Others who have helped to keep the New Deal Legacy alive will also be honored. Please RSVP by May 6 to aprice@springsgov.com.
 

2.    Denver—Meeting has been held with SHPO, Denver Library, Museum, Historical Society, State Archives and others to develop some coordinated events.  Nothing definite at this time.

3.    Intermountain Nat. Parks---things are developing that could include Colorado parks.

4.    American Numismatic Assoc.--this coin collecting group are wanting to be involved and looking into doing something. Based in Colo. Springs.

5.    Colorado Historical Society publication on The New Deal in Colorado: 1933-42  www.coloradohistory-oahp.org/publications/contexts.htm  Programs are also planned. Contact: JJ Rutherford 303) 866-4584

6.   Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation—“New Deal in Colorado, 5th Anniversary 1933-42  Properties in the National Register of Historic Places”

7.   Colorado post office murals—Denver art historian, Mary Motian-Meadows,researched with dedication this fine collection of sixteen murals in post offices in Carbondale (previously in Glenwood Springs) , Denver Federal Center Bldg.41 (these two formerly in Colorado Springs) South Denver Substation, Englewood, Florence, Golden, Grand Junction, Gunnison, Littleton, Loveland, Manitou Springs, Rifle, Rocky Ford, Walsenburg, White River National Forest (previously in the Glenwood Springs)

8.   Pueblo:-- ‘PUEBLO LORE” Jan.2008 issue is featuring the County Fairgrounds---a New Deal project and another issue is also coming out as a self-guided tour guide document to view New Deal treasures in this community. This document is published by the Pueblo County Historical Society. Some of the many sites in this community include the State Fair grounds and the well-known par.

A WPA sand painting which was a WPA art project was recently found hanging in a county commissioner’s office. An earlier county courthouse chandelier has also shown up in a Texas restaurant. Wonder where the others are from this venue?  Other recent finds were 125 photographs of CCC activities from the area’s Pueblo Mountain Park and Lake San Isabel found in St. Louis at the CCC Main office. Folks should be aware that most of that archival collection has now been transferred to the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.  These are examples of the “traveling ability” of New Deal treasures in the past 75 years.  Contact: George Williams grwpkw@comcast.net

CONNECTICUT---NOTHING YET

DELAWARE---NOTHING YET

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA  -  

 FLORIDA

            * Miami Beach – The Wolfsonian—Florida International University will open its New Deal Exhibit: A Bittersweet Decade: The New Deal in America, 1933-43 This exhibition considers the impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs on American culture in the 1930’s and 1940s, with an emphasis on South Florida. It explores the ways that the federal government, local communities, and individuals used visual culture, in the form of fine arts, design, and architecture. To restore the nation’s economy during the Great Depression and to foster a unified national identity. Check their website for more information. www.wolfsonian.org

            * Family of W.C. Kennedy—Public Works of Art artist.  This artist painted the murals in the Washington, DC Zoo.  The family is interested is interested in learning more about this project and their father’s work. Contact Melissa K. Whitehead melissawh@bellsouth.net.

            * Miami Beach Post Office—the circular lobby in this unique Post Office structure is enhanced by New Deal murals depicting scenes typical of the area.

HAWAII---NOTHING YET

GEORGIA

Georgia..Kickoff on April 12, 2008 with ceremony at Roosevelt’s Little White House commemorating the anniversary of FDR’s death.

Permanent plaques marking building's built by WPA and CCC on buildings and structures at Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites.

 CCC Camp at Hard Labor State Park will be highlighted as one of the only remaining complete camps in the US.

 “Georgia’s Tree Army” This environmental conservation program commemorates the CCC’s contribution to forestry while encouraging citizens to plant a tree next year. This program will partner the Georgia Forestry Commission and Ga. Dept of Natural Resources together in promoting history and conservation.

 Publication of a “New Deal newspaper” will be distributed statewide at all sites with the details and history of the New Deal and their impact on the Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites. Will have a comprehensive calendar of 75th events for the entire year with maps to all sites.

 DVD of New Deal program documentaries (Including “A Nationwide System of Parks” “The River” and “The Plow that Broke the Plains”) distributed to State Parks and Historic Sites for special on-site interpretive programs.

 Promotional campaign will include banners and posters commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the New Deal to be distributed to State Parks for public bulletin boards and kiosks.

 “A New Deal Journey Through Time” Young adults and children can receive a “Flat Franklin” to travel with them to the State CCC/WPA sites. This task driven adventure aims at having families travel to the sites, make a photograph made at a prominent CCC/WPA structure, and submit an essay on what they have learned about the New Deal. Winners will be recognized in various age groups and can receive prizes including a weekend get-a-way for the family at a Park or Historic Site.

A line of resale merchandise is being developed that highlights New Deal programs.

Oral History Program for contemporaries of FDR is underway at Roosevelt’s Little White House.

Special presentation on the Resettlement Administration’s Pine Mountain Valley Project will take place at Roosevelt’s Little White House.

“Letters to Eleanor” living history program at Roosevelt’s Little White House. The First Lady’s responses to a few of the thousands of letters she received during the depression asking for assistance.

 A “Special Postmark” by the USPS will commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the New Deal at Roosevelt’s Little White House in October 2008.

 Programs and special events are being developed for children at State Parks and Historic Sites to commemorate New Deal programs that include “Paint a WPA style mural”, “Put on a Fireside Chat” and CCC/WPA site beautification projects.

 “A New Deal For the Arts” Student New Deal Poster Art Exposition at Roosevelt’s Little White House.

 Little White House—Warm Springs—April 12 annual event.

 CCC-Savannah—Advocacy group for Bacon Park is entertaining the idea of supporting a Youth Conservation Corps to honor he men of Camp #460. Other activities are also being discussed.

IDAHO

INDIANA---NOTHING YET

ILLINOIS 

August/September: Remembering FDR: Digital Images of the Joseph M. Jacobs Memorabilia Collection at the Center for New Deal Studies. Showcases newly digitized photographs of this collection of over 3500 objects related to FDR the New Deal, Great Depression, and World War Two.

November 17: William Leuchtenburg, Roosevelt Scholar and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina will give the 16th Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Lecture. This event will also celebrate Roosevelt University Dedication Day. Co-sponsored with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, NY.

October/November—Plans are underway for the Center for New Deal Studies to sponsor a bus tour of WPA murals and a lecture/panel on the built environment of Chicago during the Chicago Humanities Festival. The 2008 theme for the Festival is “Grand Visions.”

Midwest NNDPA Chapter—A series of 25 minute in-studio interviews with people involved in ND projects including CCC will be available at the Evanston Community Media Center on DV tape with distribution on DVD’s.  Copies of scholarly ND presentations at a 2003 NNDPA national conference will also be for sale.

Roosevelt University—Center for New Deal Studies will host a FSA photography exhibit from Gage Gallery at Roosevelt Univ. and their annual fall speaker event will focus on the 75th celebration.  It is also hope that they will be able to work with the Chicago Humanities Festival to highlight the New Deal celebration theme with those events in November and the Chicago Metro History Fair.

Nat. Archives Film Fest—this is currently being scheduled.

Southside Federal Art Center—New Deal Federal Art Center--Exhibit hopefully in conjunction with Art Institute

Bronzeville –considering some activities to compliment Southside Art Center.

Other things in the mill.    

IOWA—NO KNOWN ACTIVITIES

KANSAS—NOTHING YET

KENTUCKY

                1. Cumberland Falls—Sept. 27-30  The newly merged Civilian Conservation Corps Organization –the CCC Legacy—will be holding the annual reunion.

LOUISIANA—NOTHING YET

MAINE---NOTHING YET

MARYLAND 

*Baltimore---Museum of Art will make its 900+ collection of New Deal art available to seen by individuals and classes that visit the Study Room.  Their publications “Art in a Day’s Work: Prints from the WPA” and “Tanner and His influence in America” will also be available.

*Greenbelt—In March this New Deal community hosted a bus tour of folks from around the country attending a 75th Anniversary event sponsored by NNDPA, the Library of Congress and National Archives.

MASSACHUSETTS

The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) held an event to honor the CCC on March 31 but is planning other events throughout the year. They are hoping to find more of the CCC alumni for those events. They will also introduce a new website focused on CCC history and their accomplishments. For more information contact Donna Stimpson at 413-499-4262 or email Alec.Gillmann@state.ma.us.

Boston—MARCH 31, 2008—The State House was the site of their 75th Anniversary celebration and all CCC alumni and their families and friends were invited to luncheon in their honor.  To learn more or to provide information to the committee about CCC alumni, contact http://www.wickedlocal.com/plymouth/news/x101498594.

Plymouth—The public library has a display of New Deal memorabilia that will be up through March.  Other activities are being developed between the town of Plymouth and the Friends of Myles Standish State Forest.  Contact person: Shari Heller at slheller@comcast.net

The Department of Conservation and Recreation: kicked off their 75th Celebration at the State House in Boston on March. A Proclamation from the Governor and a Legislative Resolution was read and CCC alumni in attendance recognized. Events will continued throughout the year in the State Parks, a new website focusing on the CCC history and accomplishments is added to the Department’s webpage www.mass.gov/dcr/ and providing interpretative programs for young people about the important legacy of the Corps. An AmericCorps group working in the parks is developing an adio visual presentation about the CCC which will also be shown throughout the year. For more specifics contact Alec Gillman or Donna Stimpson at 413) 499-4262. or email to Alec.Gillmann@state.ma.us

 MICHIGAN           

            *Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State Univ. –art exhibit, tours of buildings and exhibit of archival materials and is currently visiting with other museums in the area to join them in this celebration. 

Now thru August 24, 08 Michigan State University Museum Michigan History magazine article “Carving a living at Michigan State University” features the New Deal history of public art on the campus. located on the campus, has a New Deal exhibit entitled “The Federal Art Project: Supporting Good Artists in Bad Times” It features WPA from public works projects in Michigan and on the MSC campus during the 1930-40’s. Included is rustic furniture, skis, snowshoes, fishing creels and decorative arts utilizing traditional native materials and craft techniques. Miniature dolls dressed in detailed period costumes and a set of miniature pieces of historic furniture created by the MSC home economics students and barn models are also included along with a large relief map of the campus created in 1941 by WPA workers. The campus will also be giving new focus on the various sculptures throughout the campus done by FAP artists Samuel Cashwan and Leonard Jungwirth. Other works they did for the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing can be viewed in the exhibit and one done in limestone in 1933 by Jungwirth features a “Worker with a Shovel.”
 

MINNESOTA— CCC Camps E-93, PE-93 and SCS-12— are being featured in Rochester, Minnesota by a group of residents who are hoping to persuade local officials to preserve the remaining camp grounds and structures and nominate them as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Anyone with information should contact Jane Bisel at (507) 280-6888 or jane@blueplanet-consulting.com

MISSISSIPPI—NOTHING YET

MISSOURI—NOTHING YET

MONTANA

The Montana Historic Preservation Dept. held its Awards Ceremony and Reception on May 22. The theme for this year’s commemoration of activities is “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”

The Montana Historical Society plans to hold their annual conference Oct. 16-18 in Glasgow. This will be their 35th annual conference and their theme this year is “Damned If We Do.” They will be exploring the history of Northeast Montana, the Fort Peck Dam, the New Deal in Montana, the Sioux and Assiniboine peoples, and much more.

The New Deal portion will occur on Friday, Oct. 17 and is tentatively expected to include:

*Fifty Cents an Hour—musical presentation by Lois and Del Longuist about the building the Ft. Peck Dam

*The Grapes of Wrath

*The USFS and CCC and Depression-Era Projects in MT

*The MT Power Co. and the New Deal

*From Barge to Barn:Reincarnation of the Jefferson Dredge

Dillon—Birch Creek Center at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest: The 75th Anniversary of the New Deal will be held August 2 and will highlight the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the New Deal that created it. The event will help promote awareness of the CCC program and the men who served. Hopefully Montana’s southwest communities will recognize the value and strength of America’s youth during the Great Depression and visualize the tremendous resulting social and cultural benefits. This event will tell the stories of the people and projects of the CCC with living history exhibits and educational programs thru partnerships with historical organizations.

NEBRASKA—NOTHING YET

NEVADA—NOTHING YET

NEW HAMPSHIRE—NOTHING YET

NEW JERSEY

 

NEW MEXICO 

      New Mexico Chapter Activities

A.  CCC Worker Statue: Santa Fe: The state legislature approved $25,000 in March for the purchase of a CCC Worker Statue to be placed at the State Capitol. It is expected that it will be received and placed there in the fall. Private donations will be used to pay for the design and completion of the base for the statue.

Truth or Consequences, NM: A second statue is scheduled to be purchased and placed at the Elephant Butte Dam Recreation site as finance with the help of the state’s Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), a current CCC type program. The youth involved in this program will be helping with the placement of both of these statues in NM.
 

B.  Various successful activities were held in Santa Fe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Wheelwright Museum featuring the Native American New Deal artists around the country and New Mexico.

C.   January thru November—Traveling Photo Exhibit I

This collection of 82 color photographs of New Mexico New Deal public art are being exhibited around the state via a partnership between NNDPA and the NM Mainstreet program of the NM Economic Development Dept.  It opened in Silver City at the Silver City Museum in Dec. 2007 and will remain there until March 2.

Mar. 14--May 11—Artesia

May 22--July 25—Raton

Aug. 1 --Sept. 7—Tucumcari

Sept.19--Nov. 1—Portales

March 08 thru June 09----Traveling Photo Exhibit II

July 3-5 Quemado Community Celebration exhibit to be shown in the old New Deal 1934 jail

July thru Mid August—Alcalde: Coronado Monument
 

A second and different photo exhibit of 40 color photographs of New Mexico New Deal public art is sponsored by the New Mexico Humanities Council and the NNDPA. The schedule for this traveling exhibit is as follows:

March 1-April    Clayton-Hertzein Museum

April-----May     Open at this time*

May -----June      Carlsbad Art Museum

July------Aug.      Open*

Aug------Sept.     Gallup

Oct. ----- Nov.     Las Cruces

Dec. -----Feb       Taos

March---April     Clovis

May-----June       Lincoln

*Interested sites could schedule the exhibit for their sites on these open dates.  Contact newdeal@cybermesa.com

Dr. David Kammer and/or Kathryn Flynn will be speakers at some of the openings of these exhibits.

D.  New Mexico New Deal Maps—The NM Chapter of the NNDPA and the NM Humanities Council have developed a map of the state that highlights New Deal architecture, public art, schools, parks, and CCC original camp sites.  These will be distributed at events around the state.    

E. Other FDR Chautauqua Presentations—April

Historical Society of NM, NM Humanities Council and NM Chapter of NNDPA are working together to feature a series of FDR Chautauqua presentations by Richard Marold from Colorado Springs, Co. He is scheduled in the following communities in April:

April    5–Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (Co-sponsors- Palace of Governors and NM History Library)

April    8–1-2:30--OASIS Senior Learning Program—UNM Continuing Ed.Center—Albuquerque         

April    8–Evening 7pm  Union Hall AFL-CIO’s Fed. Of State County and Municipal Employees Union

April    10–Roswell—Roswell Museum and Art Center 7 p.m.

April    12–Las Cruces  NMSU History Museum

April    13–Gallup  UNM Branch 7 p.m.

April     25–Deming—Historical Society of NM Annual Conference — Chuck wagon Supper 7 p.m.

F.  Santa Fe- May 23, 5-7 Party for all NM New Deal artists and their descendents at Randall Davey Home also the National Audubon Society Center. New Deal 75th, Randall Davey’s 121st birthday and the 25th anniversary of the Audubon Society at Davey Home

G. Santa Fe—After July, The NNDPA New Mexico Chapter will work with the state’s Legislative Council Service to purchase and place a new CCC Worker Statue on the State Capitol grounds.

H. Albuquerque—August 23, 4:30-6:30 The London Frontier Theater Company from Magdalena will perform their play “The Luck of the Lost Wife Creek” from the New Deal era in New Mexico. This will be held at the Sandia Presbyterian Church’s Family Life Center.

I.  Restoration of Murals

Thanks to funding from the state legislature, the NM Chapter will have restoration of public art in process during the year at Highlands Ilfeld Auditorium Lobby (5 of 7 murals by Brooks Willis;  NMSU-Foster Hall (Biology Bldg.) entry area-four frescos by Olive Rush and Silver City-Grant County Courthouse- two murals by Theodore Van Soelen. 

Other NM Chapter activities in process--TBA:

1.Film Festival—“Grapes of Wrath”

“The Plow that Broke the Plains”

“The River”

And some NM archival films of the period.

J.  Musical Events—Three cultures folk festival TBA-Piano concert with music from two above films—Jacquelyn Helin, concert pianist Theater event—London Frontier Theater--TBA

Fireside Chats: Social gatherings focusing on various topics

                        a. John Gaw Meem—New Deal architectural genius

                        b. Hispanic Women of the New Deal

                        c. Train Ride to visit FDR’s Caboose and Barbeque

                        e.  New Book and Book signings---The New Deal – A 75th Celebration Kathryn A. Flynn, Author.  Gibbs Smith Publisher

Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture (Updated)  Kathryn A. Flynn, Author

Other NM Chapter activities are being considered:

Film and musical events are being developed.
 

K.  Booksignings by NNDPA Executive Director, Kathryn Flynn’s new book The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration July 5th and other dates and places.
 

L. The Old Santa Fe Trail Building: which has housed the National Parks Service (NPS) regional staff and other historical groups held open house activities in May. Other historical preservation groups are working with NPS to support important national building status housing reasonable and valuable NPS programs in the future. . .The building is believed to be the largest adobe business structure in the country and was built by the CCC and outfitted by the labors of WPA craftsman and New Deal public artists.
 

      NEW DEAL ACTIVITIES SPONSORED BY OTHER GROUPS

Numerous events will be held in May all over the state sponsored by various groups honoring Historic Preservation Month which this year is featuring the New Deal. That state office will have its Kick Off Award Ceremony on May 2 at the Scottish Rite Temple. See their website for a complete list of Historic Preservation activities during the month of May.

 

A.  Truth or Consequences—Contact the following people about these coming events: Harriette Bolling 744-4761, Sherry Fletcher 898-8150

June—August---Television for T or C Public Access Channel will promote the 75th Anniversary ---Films done by High School and one done by Socorro and Sierra Counties Tourism Boards.

Oct. 11 Sierra County Fair “Sheep to Shawl Booth at Sierra County Fair” Exhibit and sharing of story how New Deal supported the Sheep and Goat industry in Sierra County 4 p.m. School Art Projects, Booklets and Films on display at Dam Site Restaurant
Dedication of CCC Worker Statue planned at Dam Site Recreation Area (donations accepted)
 

M. National Hispanic Cultural Center exhibit featuring New Deal artist, Patrocinio Barela, and later artist, Edward Gonzales titled “Caminos Ditsintos” will be up through August 10, 2008.

N. WPA Anniversary Celebration: Arts, Artists and History 10-5 Call 505) 246-2261 for date info.

O. Santa Fe—locals expect to dedicate a CCC Worker Statue at the Elephant Butte Recreation Site. The local group working on this project are still looking for monies to complete the installation of the statue.

P. Elephant Butte Dam site—CCC Worker Statue
Funds have been found to purchase and install a CCC Worker Statue at this location where the CCC and WPA worked. The local historical group is still seeking $2,000 for the transport of the statue from the foundry.

Q. NM State Parks—This is also their 75th anniversary and a variety of activities at each of the parks is scheduled. They are also raffling off a diamond to commemorate their 75th anniversary.
 

R. Carlsbad Caverns –Conservation of New Deal murals by Will Shuster and restored to original home at the cavern’s visitor center. More details to be presented about activities at this location.


S. New Mexico State University—A self-guided campus tour brochure is being completed by two of the school’s librarians and will be in both English and Spanish. It will include the frescoes being restored by Albuquerque professional art conservator, Luis Neri-Zagal that are on the front of Foster Hall..

Talks about the campus’s New Deal history will be given by Dr. Jon Hunner and Dr. David Kammer.in the Public History Program at NMSU.

In October-November, the Library will curate an exhibit of

New Deal public art in Branson Library, 4th floor gallery.

A New Deal history exhibit is also in place at the school’s history museum.

 

Features events focusing on historic preservation around the state with emphasis this year on New Deal sites and activities.

Awards Ceremony—May 2

1.  State Parks 75TH anniversary events

2.  National Park (Carlsbad) and Monuments events

3.  Truth or Consequences Public Schools activities

4. Navajo Land has plans developing and will be announced

 

NEW YORK 

1.      Hyde Park:  New major exhibit “One Hundred Days that Saved America”

2.      Hyde Park: Annual conference of the Roosevelt Institution will present their papers on using FDR policies to solve selected problems facing the country today. 

3.      Fifth Annual Roosevelt Reading Festival: June 21 sponsored by the Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. It will be held in the Henry Wallace Visitor and Educational Center and will feature twelve authors delivering presentations in concurrent sessions with book signings throughout the day. The authors that will be participating include a NNDPA board member, Gray Brechin and Executive Director, Kathryn Flynn. along with Anthony J. Badger, Harry Goldsmith, Linda L. Levin, Amity Shales, Robert Schlesinger, Nick Taylor, Steve Vogel.
 

4.      East Hampton: The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center –exhibit of Lee Krasner, ND artist, work.

5.      Genesee Valley Council on the Arts: Mount Morris, NY CCC park and campus area done by WPA is the site for planned gallery including 200 works of art, 7 murals and 8 cast concrete sculptures. Contact: Kathryn@gvcaonline.org

6.      Woodstock Art Center: exhibit planned 

7.      New York City:  An FDR Memorial-- Plans are underway to create a stone edifice designed by fame architect Louis Khan who drew up the original plans some years ago. It will be constructed at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island to finally honor the city’s native son.

8.      Queens Historical Society: Survey of New Deal buildings and sites is underway and a program is planned.
 

NORTH CAROLINA—

Weaverville —The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation is hosting a dinner on June 19 from 6-10 at the Claxon Farm in Weaverville. They will honor the CCC alumni and Dr. Harley Jolley who has just completed a new book on the CCC of North Carolina. Contact 336.721.0260 or email lfletcher@BRPFoundation.org for tickets.

NORTH DAKOTA—NOTHING YET

OHIO 

1.      Tentative-Main Library Cincinnati—Lecture series and exhibit

2.      Uof Cinn. College Conservatory of Music — considering producing a Federal Theater play that was staged her during the ND.

3.      Cincinnati –The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of Cincinnati will offer a seminar in the spring composed of eight sessions studying New Topics; philosophical foundations, cultural arts and FDR’s fight with the Supreme Court among them.  Moderated by NNDPA  board member. Charles Nuckolls, NNDPA board member

4.      Hamilton, Ohio— Miami University. Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. “Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story” The Michael J. Colligan History Project will present Susan Marie Frontczak as the First Lady. The year is 1937. Come meet her in during her husband’s second term. Through a series of vignettes, catch alternating glimpses into Mrs. Roosevelt’s public and private personae. One hour program starts with a 40-45 monologue in-character followed by a Q&A session with Mrs. R and then Q&A with the scholar/presenter.

            *Also proposed activities—Main Branch of Library—series of lecture/discussion sessions based on the city’s New Deal history.

            *University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music -- is considering the possibility of producing a Federal Theater Project play that was staged here

            *Retrospective of 1938 WPA Cincinnati Art Museum exhibit.

5. On March 13, the Fort Ancient State Memorial dedicated an Ohio Historical Marker at the site of CCC Camp 588 in Oregonia, Ohio. Over 200 young African American CCC participants camp completed 56 projects at Fort Ancient, a prehistoric site back in the 1930’s. The camp area has continued to be used and received in 2005 a Save America’s Treasures grant to restore/update some of the clay drainage culverts put in place by the C’s. Much research has gone into the CCC work by the staff at Fort Ancient.

6. Chillicothe—Tar Hollow State Park. Sept. 19 This State Park is planning a 75th Anniversary celebration and is seeking the 67 CCC members of CCC Co. 502 (Camp Stony Creek) in Chillicothe in 1934. Please contact Mike Borland at Michael.Borland@dnr.state.oh.us.
 

7. FT. ANCIENT—Between 1933-35, over 200 young African American men between the ages of 18-25 lived at Ohio’s Fort Ancient while working on 56 projects there. One of the projects involved created drainage culverts, tiles, and head wall to stop the ponding of water from many areas of the site. After 70 years of use many of the clay drainage tiles have collapsed so in 2005 Save America’s Treasures granted funds to study these sites and replace those with modern drainage materials.

However, the best-preserved culvert was saved as an educational tool and commemoration of the work of those young African American men and a Ohio Historical Marker was placed on the site in April 2007 and pans are underway for a dedication in 2008 as part of the 75th anniversary.
 

OKLAHOMA

1.        Anadarko Post Office:  This post office probably has more art in its lobby than any other in the United States.  It must not be missed.

2.        Tulsa: Oct.21-25 National Trust for Historic Preservation annual conference. NNDPA plans a program and a field trip about Tulsa’s New Deal Art Deco treasures.

3.        CSulphur, OK—Chickasaw National Recreation Area. (Formerly Platt National Park): On March 28th, the National Park staff held a 75th CCC Alumni and Friends Reception and Reunion at 717 W. Broadway. The next day the staff conducted a series of interpretive programs for the public about the CCC in this park. Contact 580) 622- 2824 for more information about this site and its history.

4.        Ponca City—June 4-6 Oklahoma’s 20th State Historical Preservation Conference: will take place at the City Hall and other public buildings. The theme for this conference is “Artfully Yours.”

5.       Chillicothe—-Tar Hollow State Park—Sept. 19 This State Park is planning a 75th Anniversary celebration and is seeking the 67 CCC members of CCC Company 502 (Camp Stony Creek) in Chillicothe.in 1934. Please check with Mike Borland at Michael.Borland@dnr.state.oh.us.

6.       Greenhills— “a New Deal created from scratch town” will be having its annual reunion and celebration the last weekend in June.

OREGON

1.      Mt. Hood National Forest and Timberline Lodge- May 31. All day activities are scheduled at this national forest. Presentations will be made at 10, 12 and 2 at the Zigzag Ranger Station and driving and walking tours can be done on your own at the CCC Camp Zigzag, Tollgate Campground, Mt. Hood Cultural Center and Museum and Timberline Lodge. Commemorative passports for the day will be provided and stamped for visitors at each location. Call 503.622.3191 for information. Sponsored by the US Forest Service, Friends of Timberline, Mt. Hood Cultural Center and Museum and the R.L.K. Company (Timberline Lodge).

2.      New Timberline Lodge Book ---Sarah Munro, a NNDPA national board member, is hoping to complete her book on the Timberline Lodge for the 75th celebration. Teacher workshops at the Lodge are planned for based on the receipt of a NEH grant.

3.      Portland—The Oregon Historical Society is planning an exhibit of Oregon’s New Deal history and panel presentations are being developed.

4.       Portland—

a. The Oregon Historical Society is planning an exhibit of Oregon’s New Deal History and panel presentations are scheduled.

b. The Portland Art Museum has a document created by Margaret Bullock, a former curator, which shares about their New Deal public art within the museum’s fine art collection. Be sure and asked for a copy of this document
 

Oregon Experience : CCC

 The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of Franklin Roosevelt’s most popular New Deal programs. It targeted unemployed young men, WWI veterans and American Indians.  It put hundreds of thousands of men to work on federal and state land for the ‘prevention of forest fires, floods, and soil erosion, plant, pest, and disease control.’ The ‘CCC boys’ came to be known as the Tree Army – planting 3 billion trees.

 Oregon was a major site for CCC camps, employing thousands of young people from across the country. The program put money into local economies and gave a wage to families struggling through the Great Depression. Today, the CCC ‘s work is still enjoyed in parks and forests around the state.

 Through interviews with former enrollees, the program will tell the story of the CCC and its works in Oregon. It is scheduled to air on OPB Fall 2008.

 The program is a part of the ongoing series Oregon Experience. From historical biographies to issues and events that have shaped our state, Oregon Experience is an exciting television series co-produced by OPB and the Oregon Historical Society. The series explores Oregon's rich past and helps all of us — from natives to newcomers — gain a better understanding of the historical, social and political fabric of our state.

 Each half-hour show brings to life fascinating characters — both familiar and forgotten — who've played key roles in building our state into the unique place we call home. For more information visit   http://www.opb.org/programs/oregonexperience/

 

PENNSYLVANIA

1.      Develop and post a website on the 75th anniversary centered on New Deal era Post Office mural art. The website will also feature a calendar of events; links to PA-based New Deal resources (archives, CCC camps, etc). The website will go live in December, 2007.

2.      Open an exhibit in November, 2008, at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg featuring photo reproductions of New Deal era post office mural art.

3.      Feature articles on PA’s New Deal history in the quarterly award-winning Pennsylvania Heritage magazine.

4.      Dedicate State Historical Markers and encourage National Register of Historic Places nominations on New Deal cultural and historic resources.

5.      Offer public programs and tours on New Deal topics. Contact: Ken Wolensky at kwolensky@state.pa.us

6.      Philadelphia: WPA Living Archives, organization that is developing quite a large archive of WPA posters from the Federal Art Project and plans to have a new book out soon.  Contact: Ennis Carter at 215) 922-7303.

7.      Harrisburg--Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Historic Sites and Museums is developing plans regarding their archival treasures. Contact: Richard Rolinski (717) 772-4992

8.      Laurel Hill State Park, Somerset, PA—July 7 Dedication of new CCC Worker Statue.

PUERTO RICO—NOTHING YET

RHODE ISLAND—NOTHING YET

SOUTH CAROLINA

Sullivan’s Island, Charleston, South Carolina—Funds are being raised to place a CCC Historical Marker for CCC Camp 445 near Battery Gadsden, home of the Town’s library. Judi Blanton Meyer, daughter of of Samuel Thomas “Red” Blanton of Camp 445 and Chapter 36 of the NACCCA, is spearheading this project. Chapter 36 was a very active chapter at one time and is now defunct since most of its former members are no longer able to attend. Ms. Meyer is doing this to honor their service to this country.

SOUTH DAKOTA 

1. The Garden Clubs in the northeast part of the state are advocating a statewide involvement that will include tree planning and a tree count program hat would be part of the 75th National Tree Planting effort.

2. CCC Chapter 117—orchestrating their CCC Worker statue installation and the New CCC Museum in Hill City, South Dakota. "See the CCC Legacy website, then click on the Activities Around the States section and then click on South Dakota."

 

TEXAS 

1.   “See the CCC Legacy website, then click on the Activities Around the State section and then click on Texas.”
 

2.   State Parks—Producing a map of New Deal sites and items around the state and accompanying exhibit—funded by State Humanities...

3.   Texas State Parks—There are thirty Texas state parks that bear the distinct mark of the young CCC laborers who erected permanent structures that reflect the rustic style which can be seen in National and State parks across the nation. The state park in Balstrop, Texas is one of only six state parks in the US built by the CC that are designated as a Nation Historic Landmark On March 28-29 there was a celebration honoring those CCC alumni that were found. Between 1933 and 1942 there were 101 companies of young men at 130 CCC camps in Texas and they developed 56 parks in Texas.

4. Snyder—May 11 Save Travis Gym and Scurry Historic County Inc. tour of Historic Landmarks of Snyder:
A small exhibit in this gym will depict the lifestyles during the Depression as well as school memorabilia. An active group is o save this gym as a historic site in the community. Another be happening later at the Snyder museum.

5. Brownfield---The local Police Station, formerly the local post office,

Is the home of a terrific New Deal mural “Ranchers of the Panhandle Fighting Prairie Fire with Skinned Steer” by Colorado artist, Frank Mechau. The community and its visitors are encouraged to drop by the police station (where you don’t normally go by choice) and take in the beauty of the mural
and the anquish of the fire and the steer. This mural was used as the cover of Phil Parisi’s outstanding book, The Texas Post Offices Murals. Mary Jo Hamilton, lifetime citizen of Brownfield, keeps a close watch on this mural for the community and remembers that her father was in the CCC.

Louise Sears, who also lived in the area, remembers the hard times in that part of Texas and the country including what the federal government did for the ranchers including “the cattle that were strong enough to be relocated were shipped to places where there was water and grass, and for these the government paid $15 per head for the larger cattle and $8 per head for the calves. This gave farmers and ranchers some money and they no longer had to watch their cattle die from lack of water and feed.”
 

UTAH—Nothing know of as yet.

VERMONT—Nothing know of as yet.

VIRGINIA 

1.   Commemorative CCC Stamp Cancellation-March 31, 2008

2.   Rededication—of the Fechner Memorial Forest created by Exec. Order upon the death of Robert Fechner. Location: Camp Roosevelt

3.   VA Dept of Forestry—Annual seedling sale will feature the red oak seedling as the CCC 75th anniversary commemorative planting.  The catalog goes to all Virginia citizens and organization who order plants through this entity.

4.   Dorcus Quilters, Woodstock, VA—Constructing a decorative quilt that will hang in the new CCC Interpretive center that will display recognizable symbols of the CCC.

5.    Prince William Forest Park –Triangle, VA—2008 CCC Annual Reunion to be held here Sept. 25-27 Registration begins at 3 pm. On the 25th. Visiting and program to follow.

26th—Tours to the FDR Memorial, the WWII Memorial and the Smithsonian. It is hoped that a new exhibit at the Smithsonian featuring the transferred CCC archives from St. Louis will be open. In the evening Laura Cohen will share about the history of the Prince William National Forest Park.

27th—9-10 am Kickoff of the National Public Lands Day (NPLD) event at the Park.

10-1:30 Annual Membership Meeting and Lunch in CCC Dining Hall

1:30-3:00 Tour the Park

3-5:30 Free time, The CCC and Nat.New Deal Preservation Assoc. Commemorative Coins will be for sale.

5:30-9 The Friends of Prince William Forest Park are hosting a Virginia CCC Member Appreciation Day Dinner at the OSS Theater at 5:30 on the 27th.

Program: Speakers from National Public Lands Day (NPLD) and National Park Dignitary

Entertainment: Delmas Wood—FDR living history

Enjoyment and education in a “New Deal” for the 2008 Reunion.

Sept. 25-27 The dedication of a new CCC Worker Statue is planned during the upcoming 2008 Annual CCC Reunion at Prince William Forest Park.

6.  Virginia State Park Arboretum — will sponsor the planting of two red oaks in honor of the CCC.  They will be planted by children attending the Arbor Fest held at the Arboretum.

7.  GWashington Nat. Forest—Lee District will adopt a forest program encouraging youth and community to care for public land and honor the CCC.

8.  Shenandoah County, VA—Educating packages are being developed for 4-H and Scout leaders to teach about the CCC and its value to modern Americans.

WASHINGTON

1.  Seattle: CCC Chapter #5—reached out to the art students of Mariner High School to participate in the 75th anniversary activities. They enlisted the youth to design CCC 75th anniversary logos and 25 creations were submitted. The winner was Damascus Purnell, an 11th grader and is being used for their activities and on the new commemorative coin created by the NNDPA and the new CCC Legacy group.

2.  Seattle—Damascus Purnell, age 17, participated in and was chosen the winner of a 75th Logo Project Design contest at Mariner High School in Seattle.
 CCC Chapter #5 and its president, Bernice Phillips, are strong advocates for educating youth to the value of the CCC heritage. Therefore they reached out to the art department at Mariner High School last year and enlisted the design of a CCC 75th anniversary logo and 25 creations were submitted. The winning logo was designed by Damascus Purness, a 17.year old eleventh grader. The design will be used on all their 75th activities including the new 75th Commemorative Coin created in partnership with the National New Deal Preservation Association..

WEST VIRGINIA 

            *"See CCC Legacy website, 75th Anniversary then click on “National News” and select West Virginia."
 

            *The West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office has been awarded $100,000 from Preserve America to develop statewide thematic tours to encourage heritage tourism in communities across the state.  The Preservation Alliance of West Virginia’s Cultural Heritage Development  Program will be the lead partner with the SHPO in implementing two themes—New Deal resources and Historic Theaters. Other groups involved in this fantastic partnership activity include the Civil Wart Task Force, Main Street West Virginia and a broad range of state agencies, non-profits, and local and regional partners.  This sounds quite comprehensive, valuable for all—a real win-win winner! Contact: Martha Ballman 304)345- 6005 or mballman@pawv.org

            * West Virginia New Deal Conference—75th Anniversary Oct. 24-26, 2008 Contact Melissa May 304) 363-3030 or director@prickettsfort.org for information.

             * New Deal Conference 75th Anniversary 1933-2008

Elkins, West Virginia

October 24 – 26, 2008

Sponsored by the West Virginia Association of Museums

Friday, October 24

Randolph County Community Art Center



10:00 – 11:30 Registration

11:45 – 1:00 Kick Off Luncheon and Key Note

Appalachian New Deal

Jerry Bruce Thomas, Shepherd University

1:15 – 2:00 CCC and State Parks

Bob Beanblossom, WVSP

2:15 – 3:00 CCC and National Forest Areas

Rob Whetsell, Historian

3:15 – 4:00 Conducting New Deal Research

Larry Sypolt, WVU

4:00 – 6:00 Break

6:00 – 9:00 Dinner and Opening Reception for

Exhibit: The New Deal in West Virginia



Saturday, October 25

Homestead School



9:00 – 10:00 Registration

10:15 – 11:00 New Deal Buildings and Structures

Bryan Ward, SHPO

11:15 – 12:00 West Virginia Homesteads Chelley Depp Tygart Valley Homestead

Heather Dalton, Arthurdale

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch with Homesteaders

1:15 – 2:00 West Virginia Post Office Murals

John Cuthbert, WVU

2:15 – 3:00 Blanche Lazelle

Bob Bridges, WVU

3:15 – 4:00 Federal Music Project & Outhouses

Gerry Milnes, Augusta Heritage Center

4:00 – 6:00 Break

6:00 – 9:00 Dinner and New Deal Film Festival

OLD BRICK PLAYHOUSE



Sunday, October 26

Self Guided Tours of New Deal Attractions

 

WISCONSIN—No activities known of as yet but anticipate that Greendale, a New Deal town created from scratch, will have a special 75th celebration.

WYOMING 

“The New Deal Comes to Wyoming Again!”  The Wyoming Division of State Parks and Cultural Resources is teaming up with NNDPA to develop a traveling exhibit.  They will be exposing some and reminding others of the state’s CCC enhanced wonders at Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Parks and Camp Guernsey State Park. A 75th celebration is planned for May 1st at the Museum at Guernsey Sate Park. A total of 25 CCC camps kept many young “boys” busy and families back home from total economic strife.  Learn more about this project by contacting the State Historic Preservation Office at 307) 777-3418. Park. Their 75th celebration began on May 1st at the Museum at Guernsey State Park.

New Deal dancing, music and contests:  The Governor’s Arts Awards dinner will feature big band music and people will be encouraged to wear period clothing from the 30-40’s The Art Council is giving out grants to communities who sponsor a concert of New Deal music, or an original New Deal dance with music and other New Deal arts projects.

Photo Exhibit of CCC camps: This exhibit will feature work by noted photographer Stimson at the Barret Building lobby which houses the State Museum, the State Archives and Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.

 

NATIONWIDE EVENTS THAT ARE DEVELOPING

 

1. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS---Pursuing their plans at this time.            

2. USPS—developing some plans 

3. NACCCA --will be merging into a new entity 

4. ELDERHOSTEL -- considering a nationwide New Deal theme.  

5. National Program with Corps Network and National Public Lands Day (4th Sat. of Sept.) -- This will be a year long activity to recognize the youth of yesterday and today through the planting of trees and other work on public land to honor the men of the CCC.  Modern service and conservation corps will invite alumni to events across America.  NPLD organization will reaffirm their commitment to the care of CCC developed public land that they proclaimed at the 2001 NACCCA Reunion at Shenandoah National Park.  Both organizations will teach the value of the CCC and involve local communities in the 75th anniversary.  The tool kit for participation is still being developed by the Corps Network. 

6. GREENHILLS, OHIO, GREENDALE, WS, GREENBELT, MD AND ARTHURDALE, WV –all New Deal towns are expected to strut their stuff and possibly some other resettlement towns like Ropesville, TX and Palmerdale, NC.

 

Local events nationwide developing a media toolkit encouraging the membership of the core membership to join with CCC alumni. Possible events could include ceremonial tree planting, documentary screenings and other service projects

Activity / Events at FDR memorial around the corps Network annual Conference 2/10 - 2/13/08
Congressional Record Statements / Proclamations for CCC Day.
National Public Lands Day events -similar to above with emphasis on work on public lands.

There were nearly 100 Resettlement towns and we would love to have all of them contacted and invited to participate.