I am well aware that these programs provided jobs and help the men employed by them to feed and cloth their families.............My dad was in the CCC camp, I have his footlocker, and discharge papers. also had uncles that dug by hand what was then know as Lake Bennett, known today, as Wolly Hollow State Park, in Arkansas on the Wpa program, just did not know what the letters stood for. thanks for the info carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: JANET K WILLIAMS <JANETWILLIAMS@Prodigy.net> To: <INCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 4:18 PM Subject: Re: 1930's Bridge in Howesville > Very good reply!!!!!! > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: emo <emo@silverback.gorilla.net> > To: <INCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 3:43 PM > Subject: Re: 1930's Bridge in Howesville > > > > WPA is for Works Progress Administration, a program to employee some of > the > > people who couldn't get regular work during the depression. They built a > > lot of public buildings, bridges, parks, etc. As soon as the economy > > improved they went back to work in the private sector. As a "public > > assistance" program it was nothing like Welfare in the late 20th Century. > > The people on WPA worked, were glad to get a job, feed their families and > > retain their personal honour. > > > > There was also another depression period program you may hear about, CCC > it > > is for Civilian Conservation Corps, it also put people to work. These > > programs were not a hand out, they were forms of employment. As with any > > group of "employees" there were some slackers but, the majority were hard > > working honest Americans. They belonged to my parents generation. The > > younger able bodied men of that generation also served their country > during > > WW2 (World War 2) and many of them gave their lives. > > > > And other programs instituted by FDR's administration in the mid 1930s. > > Sorry I just can not understand why our schools don't teach our countries > > history. > > > > EMO > > > > kmoore wrote: > > > > > > Can anyone out there please tell me what WPA stands for? I know it was > > > a public assistance program in the depression, but never knew what the > > > Letters WPA stood for. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Carolyn > > > kmoore@netusa1.net > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: <KEVBEX@aol.com> > > > To: <INCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 8:06 AM > > > Subject: 1930's Bridge in Howesville > > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > > > After a fun day of shopping with my mother yesterday, we were eating > > > our > > > > dinner and talking about the past (always a fun subject), and I > > > remembered > > > > that my grandfather, Noel Craig, worked on a bridge in Howesville > > > during the > > > > depression. We believe that it was part of the WPA work. > > > > > > > > Does anyone by chance know the name of the bridge that was built or > > > redone at > > > > that time? If so, was is being built from scratch or was it being > > > redone? > > > > I'd like to get any info I can on this bridge to include in my > > > grandfather's > > > > history. > > > > > > > > Thank you everyone! > > > > > > > > Becky > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== INCLAY Mailing List ==== > > > > Visit the Clay County Indiana InGenWeb site at; > > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~inclay/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== INCLAY Mailing List ==== > > > To remove your address from this list visit; > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~inclay/list.htm > > > > > > ==== INCLAY Mailing List ==== > > Visit the Clay County Indiana InGenWeb site at; > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~inclay/ > > > > > ==== INCLAY Mailing List ==== > Help support Rootsweb,become a member at; > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >