Since I live a distance, it would be so nice if these special events were video taped and made available to interested people. I remember the CCC Camps when I was a little girl. I wonder if our present government ever thought of doing this again. It would put people back to work! Janice Conklin Hesselink On Mar 4, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Peggy Norris wrote: > Hermitage Roundtable. Wednesday, March 27, 7:30 pm. The Hermitage, > 2nd Floor Education Room, 335 North Franklin Turnpike, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ > 07423. > > The Boys of Bergen: Remembering the Civilian Conservation Corps in > Bergen County. Kathleen Duxbury will present the story of the > Civilian Conservation Corps in Bergen County. Between 1933 and 1940 > the Boys of Bergen toiled along the cliffs of the Palisades and in the > marshes of the Meadowlands. They worked, they played, they grew up, > and in the process became a generation of young men with a new-found > respect for conservation and patriotism. The CCC was a New Deal work > relief program for the purposes of conserving and developing our > natural resources, particularly our parks. Kathleen’s research in > primary source materials provides a view of the impact of this program > on us today. > > Kathleen will sell and sign copies of her book, The Boys of Bergen: > Remembering the Civilian Conservation Corps in Bergen County, New > Jersey. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYROCKLA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Janice Hesselink