Included in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s monumental Emergency Work Act in March 1933 was an authorization to create a Civilian Conservation Corps, or C.C.C. as it came to be known, to recruit thousands of young men in a peace-time army to work in forests and parks and to pursue a broad array of conservation activities.
Vermont was originally allocated four C.C.C. camps, but thanks to the dynamic presence of Perry H. Merrill, State Forester, received considerably more assistance.
For more information on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/fighting-depression-ccc-1933
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Episode 28: The Early Days of Skiing
Episode 27: The Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Episode 27: The Green Mountain Parkway
Episode 25: Collecting Old Songs: Helen Hartness Flanders
Episode 24: Vermont in the Great Depression
Episode 23: The Flood of 1927
Episode 22: Memories of Silent Cal
Episode 20: Vermont Country Fairs
Episode 19: Walter Hard, Storekeeper-Writer
Episode 18: The KKK in Vermont
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Episode 16: The Anarchist Movement in Barre
Episode 15: Women Get the Vote
Episode 14: Prohibition
Episode 13: The Early Days of Radio
Episode 12: The Co-op Movement
Episode 11: The 1918 Flu Epidemic
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