Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps Camps
Author | : Martin Podskoch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2011-06 |
Genre | : Civil service |
ISBN | : 9780979497940 |
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Author | : Martin Podskoch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2011-06 |
Genre | : Civil service |
ISBN | : 9780979497940 |
Author | : Martin Podskoch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2016-06 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
ISBN | : 9780979497995 |
Author | : Martin Podskoch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780997101935 |
With over 13 million unemployed during the Great Depression, the country's new president in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, as one of his programs to get people back to work, established the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC, as it became known for short, grew into one of FDR's most successful and popular programs. Underfed young men throughout the country enlisted in the CCC and were bused to camps in national and state forests, where they were employed making the forests accessible to visitors. In Rhode Island, seven camps were established, from Primrose/Woonsocket to the north, Escoheag/Beach Pond to the west, and Burlingame/Westerly to the south. Rhode Islanders should be grateful that Martin Podskoch, one of the nation's authorities on the CCC, has turned his talents to Rhode Island. In this remarkable and authoritative book, Podskoch rediscovers the wonderful stories of CCC efforts undertaken by Rhode Islanders and fills the book's pages with photographs that bring the period back to life. Some of the sites can be visited today. This book is a real treat for readers to enjoy.
Author | : Donald R. Williams |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738511566 |
For decades, the vast Adirondack wilderness has beckoned. Some, having sampled the treasury of Adirondack art and literature, are drawn by its spectacular beauty; many are lured by its year-round sports and recreational opportunities; others are enticed by its health-giving qualities-the clear air, sparkling waters, and refreshing woodlands. The Adirondacks: 1931-1990 celebrates the years in which the six-million-acre preserve truly became a people's park. With some two hundred rare images, the book includes views of the Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid in 1932, attended by thousands from the world over. It applauds the American boys working in the CCC camps in the Adirondacks during the Great Depression. It follows the steamboats as they ply Lake George and the Fulton Chain and other lakes, as well as the railroads as they bring in more and more visitors. It traces the rise and fall of the grand hotels and their successors: the cabins, motels, cottages, second homes, and campsites of the motoring public. It highlights the music, the architecture, the animals, the crafts-the more recent history of the Adirondack culture.
Author | : Christopher Angus |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2007-06-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0815608705 |
The biography of an Adirondack legend whose tireless efforts are credited with much of today's preservation policies in the Adirondacks.
Author | : Martin Podskoch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-05-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780997101966 |
Every one of Connecticut's 169 towns has a story shaped by its geography and its people--the first inhabited the state more than 10,000 years ago, the Dutch traders, English settlers, and Africans--enslaved and free--who settled towns as one of the original 13 colonies, and successive waves of immigrants who moved its story forward. It's a small state with amazing variety that makes the 169 Club a fun and rewarding adventure. You'll experience historic town greens and new city centers, revitalized mills sprouting microbreweries and local farms offering local farm-to-table foods, and maritime villages and rural upland communities. Connecticut has it all! This guide, written by town historians and other local boosters, offers the backstory to your discovery of what makes Connecticut so special. - Elzabeth J. Normen, publisher, Connecticut Explored
Author | : Harvey H. Kaiser |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2003-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781567920734 |
The author does a thorough job in explaining the beginnings of rustic architecture and why it has a permanent place in the culture. The mix of social background and the history of the early Adirondack camps provides a designers guidebook.
Author | : Kathleen Duxbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2019-01-25 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 9780986003875 |
Reima Ratti, created art to lift himself and those around him out of the gloom of the 1930's Great Depression. His artistic contributions to the CCC, the most popular New Deal work program and greatest conservation movement in US history, placed him on a path of history. Sixty+ pieces of Ratti CCC art illustrate this historic New Deal art story.
Author | : Caroline W. Blackmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anne A. Weaver |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738572512 |
The numerous lakes and the forests of the southern Adirondacks provided an abundance of game, fish, and lumber for early settlers in the 1800s. Sportsmen from the city first came to Lake Pleasant and Speculator for invigorating camping trips and eventually brought the whole family to enjoy the wilderness. Two- and three-story hotels were built to accommodate the vacationing families. Individual cottages and rustic camps were built around Lake Pleasant, Sacandaga Lake, and Echo Lake, followed by children's and church camps and state campgrounds, which swelled the seasonal population. Boxing and winter sports helped to make Speculator and Lake Pleasant a tourist haven.