Built To Last: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2015
- At the height of the great depression, a program took shape to provide work for unemployed young men that would teach them job skills, restore logged over forest, and take the concept of public parks from paper to reality. Although it lasted only 10 years, the boys of the CCC left a lasting legacy in Minnesota that can still be seen today.
Production funding provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund and by the members of Prairie Public.
About the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a landmark piece of legislation - the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment - which provided funding to public television stations serving audiences in Minnesota. Its mission is to help preserve and document the treasures of culture, history, and heritage that make Minnesota special, and to increase access to the natural and cultural resources we all share.
I can enter any park or recreation area in the country and instantly know it was built by the CCC. The quality of construction, the use of available materials, and the extra effort that was always put forth to make it as beautiful, and user friendly as possible.
Is it just me, or do we need to bring this program back?
My father's generation: teenage boys working in the CCC and sending money home to their desperate families and then right out of the CCC barracks into the army barracks of WWII. Then veterans of Guadalcanal and the Battle of the Bulge going back to finish high school and then to work or to study under the GI Bill. At the end, if they were lucky the suburban house, the job, the family. It was a long rough road.
Excellent program.
Reminds me a bit of the TVA.
Excellent.
Bring it back
Nowadays, the people who really could benefit from this would refuse to sign up. Or if they did, they would drop out and go home after the first couple of days. “It’s TOO HARD! 😭”
This program and american homeless could solve wild fires in a couple years
who elses teacher made them watch this for hw