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/ >