American Experience video of the CCC's in the 1930's

[dtotire]

Click on link:



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/ccc/

[grasswire]

1. it's very cool

I watched it on PBS a couple of weeks ago.

I have a young family member who is currently working with a conservation group building trails in parks, and he feels very proud to be doing this work.

[Hidden Stillness]

2. A Great Program on PBS, on the Great C.C.C.

This was a fabulous and really exciting program, part of PBS's "The 1930s" series currently on. The C.C.C. was a great jobs/conservation program, and was considered the most popular New Deal program or agency. It gave jobs to millions, who sent most of their checks home and helped millions more, their families. They planted millions of trees, fought tree diseases such as Dutch Elm, etc., replenished depleted soil, built parks and roadside stands, ponds, and campgrounds. They fought floods and built new flood-control structures; they fought fires and built new fire-breaks, and drainage ditches; they helped with rebuilding after disasters, such as floods and hurricanes. They cleaned up and maintained beaches, parks, made walking trails and even maintained Civil War historic battlefields. It was the most monumental, organized conservation effort ever, of any kind, gave good jobs, and food and living conditions, to those who participated. It was hugely successful, very popular, did very much needed work, and would be the ideal program to revive completely today.

[lumpy]

3. Members of my family benefitted from the CCC program.

I had three brothers who worked through the program. Not only contibuted to improving parks and other national infrastructure, but certainly helped young people money wise as well as acquiring work experience.

[GoCubsGo]

4. Thank you!

My mom's father belonged to the CCC when he was young. The wages he earned helped his family get through the Depression. I saw part of the film, and it was good. Wish we had something like it now.

[texanwitch]

5. My father was in the CCC's.

The $25 a month feed and housed his mother and sister.

He also grew from 7 inches in a year, he served a year.

My father said he had the best time in the CCC's.

He help to build state parks.