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1930s Civilian Conservation Corps Camps: The Genesis of Our State Parks System
Local historian and author Bernard A. Drew will present a history of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Forest Army of the 1930s, a national program to provide employment, security, and training to young men during the height of the Great Depression. Drew will concentrate on Civilian Conservation Corps facilities in Great Barrington’s Beartown State Forest in and …
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