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Hard Work and a Good Deal
By Barbara W. Sommer (M.A. ’81)
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2008
This
timely book raises the voices of the men and boys whose lives were
changed by their enrollment in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a
New Deal program that provided hope and a regular paycheck to 77,000
Minnesotans during the Great Depression. Their legacy lives on in the
stone buildings, forest paths, and stands of pine that they created in
the state’s forests and parks. Oral historian Sommer draws on nearly
100 interviews with enrollees who recall how their experience in the
CCC changed their lives.
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