3 - Life In The Civilian Conservation Corps.

The Civilian Conservation Corp was created by Franklin D. Roosevelt as a solution to the tremendous unemployment problem created by the stock market crash of October 1929 which resulted in the "Great Depression." Just days after he was inaugurated on March 4, 1933, Roosevelt met with congress and proposed programs to reduce unemployment, stabilize banks, and provide aid to agriculture. Senate Bill 598 (the Emergency Work Act) was introduced March 27th, passed both houses in 4 DAYS with President Roosevelt signing it into law on March 31, 1933. The people implementing the bill soon became known as the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC). The first camp to open was Camp Roosevelt near Edinburg, VA. On April 17, 1933,

In this book you will find the story of one boy that spent a year in a camp at Boonville NY
An excerpt from the book:

Part of the reason for implementing the CCC s was to get the boys off the streets. This is where the State came in and used this boy power to their advantage Reforesting was very high on every body’s mind back then, so what better utilization could be found than cleaning out the dead brush, making fire breaks, planting trees, and also stream control.
Working out in the woods dragging brush was hard work (I can attest to that, remember I told you, one of the first jobs I had was dragging brush.) Well, being young and in good shape these boys could work hard all day and they were ready for anything when they got back to the barracks.
CCC boys were never out of work for if not dragging brush in the winter they would be planting seedlings in the spring I didn’t get involved in the actual work of planting since at the time I was driving truck But I did have to go to the tree nursery down to -- darn, I can’t remember where this was now. Well anyway, it was my job to truck the seedlings that I had picked up to the various fields for planting and distribute them to the planting crew.
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