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ALUMNI VIDEOS & CCC VIDEOS (Prose and Poetry)

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

There are not many surviving CCC Alumni that are around today and they all are living treasures.  We need to video them for future generations.  PLEASE interview them for 3-10 minutes and tranfer the recording YOUTUBE and title your interview as (Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with (Mr. their name)).  Begin with thanking them for thier service and ask their name, how old they were when thay enrolled in the CCC, and their situation then, their induction place, their dates of service,  camps and their locations and what kinds of work they did and what did they got the most out of their experience.  End with the question, "Would our youth today work as hard as you did and should the President and the Congress bring back the CCC?"

 

 

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview

with Mr Sidney Mander

 


 

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
(To Mr. Roosevelt)
By Raymond Kraus
Co. 1232, Olympia, WA
 
 
A pauper’s life we may have led.
And we died revolting for our bread;
We might have shed each other’s blood.
And we died face done in the mud.
 
 
But all because we have this man,
Whose only words are there: “I can!”
Our nation shall evolve on high,
And we shall have a brighter sky.
 
 
He gave to us the chance to say,
I’ve earned my bread and keep today,
The chance to smile, to toil, to sweat,
This damn depression this forget.
                                                                   
Happy Days, November 3, 1934 (National
newspaper of the CCC, Washington, D.C.) 

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Phil Williams


Worth It
By Doc Towne
Co. 615, Estacada,OR 

My hands are sore an’ blistered,boys,
My bones are full of aches;
My elbow joints, they make a noise
Like an ungreased windmill makes.

How come? I been a choppin’ trees
A-hewin logs and such;
The kind of work that pleases
A C.C.C.very much.

I’ve got as bunk and windows, too,
With one that’s set just right;
For us to watch the moon rise
When work is through the night.

That ax has sure wore out my hand,
But, boys, my heart ain’t sore;
I’ll stand her there to meet me
Just out the bunkhouse door.  
                                          
But I’ve been just the same,
An’ up Clackamas Valley Draw;
Now stands Company 615
Best of them all.
 
Happy Days
September 22, 1934

KETC | Living St. Louis | Civilian Conservation Corps

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CCC crew member loading a hole under a stump with dynamite, Lolo National Forest (Montana)

STUMPS

I hope that I shall never see,

A Stump outside the CCC;

A Stump whose wiry roots are found,

Deep in the earth's tenacious ground.

A stump at which I slave away,

All during a torride summer day,

Stumps are dug by guys like me

And others in the CCC.

 

D.E.M., Arcardia, RI

 

 

 

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr. Walter Atwood

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Civilian Conservation Corps boys putting up a fence, Greene County, Georgia, Ma

November 3, 2007, Video Interviews of five Alumni at the Annual Florida CCC Alumni Reunion in Highlands Hammock State Park in Sebring,Florida. Interviewed by Jay Alexander and Videographer - Mark Skogman 

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CCC enrollees using picks and shovels, Maryland, 1933

 

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Inteview - Mr Clark M Pitt

                  S H O V E L

S – is for the spuds we got for breakfast.
H – is for the home we seldom see.
O – is for the onions that they feed us.
V -  is for this verse composed by me.
E -  is for the end of my enlistment.
L – is for the last they’ll see of me.
Put them all together the spell SHOVEL
The emblem of the CCC.

Fort Lewis CCC songbook, 1934

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CCC enrollees using picks and shovels, Maryland, 1933

 

 

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Pervis H. Hamm

 

 


ROUND AND ROUND 
6:00 AM Rising Bugle 
6:15-7:00 Breakfast, followed by sick call
7:15 Police camp and draw tools 
7:30 Go to work
11:15 Return from work
12:00 Dinner 
1:00 Sick call 
1:15 Police camp 
1:30 Draw tools 
1:45 Go to work 
4:45 Return from work 
6: 00 Supper followed by the study program
10:00 Bed and lights out.

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Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Ted Mazur

 

 

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CCC telephone repairman Davis, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia

 

 

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Rusty Swarmer

 

 

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CCC building wall at Grand Canyon National Park

 

 

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr John Donovan

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Literacy was taught and tested by writing a letter home!

 

 

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview - Mr James C. King

 

 

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Compressor and jackhammer for drilling rock preparatory to shooting explosives, Lassen National Fore

 

 

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Mel Dunsmore

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Group photograph of the Veteran CCC Camp at Wolfcreek, Oregon

 

 

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Noel Dye

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Ortiz

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Enrollees singing while waiting at train station in Missoula, MT

CCC Alumni Interview - Mr Jacob Shad

IMPORTANT NOTE:

PLEASE interview any living CCC member and submit the interview to YOUTUBE under the title above with their name for the record...their stories must be saved future generations.

 
 
RECENT VIDEOS FROM PBS

CLICK photo for The American Experience - The Civilain Conservation Corps.

Ken Burns PBS Documentary "Americas Best Idea - the National Parks"
 
Click on the picture below and then click on the two minute video.

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Ken Burns PBS Documentary "Americas Best Idea - the National Parks"
 
Click on the picture below and then click on the sidebar video.

Watch Ken Burns 00:01:45 PBS Documentary Episode of the CCC "the Great Depression" on the right side of the page on Americas Best Idea - the National Parks

Members of the CCC, Glacier National Park

EPISODE FIVE: 1933–1945
Great Nature

In the midst of an economic catastrophe and then a world war, the national parks provide a source of much-needed jobs and then much-needed peace; the park idea changes to include new places and new ways of thinking.

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Minnesota Historical Society --- The month of March 2008 marked the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps, established March 31, 1933. Curator Matt Anderson commemorates the occasion with a look at CCC pieces in the ...

Video of FDR joking with journalists 

 Shanandoah National Park

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Washington State Parks Civilian Conservation Corps Part 1

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Washington State Parks Civilian Conservation Corps Part 2

CCC, The Men, The Work, The Legacy

Roosevelt's Tree Army: The Civilian Conservation Corps


The Great Depression, Displaced Mountaineers, and the C.C.C.

The Civilian Conservation Corps

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The CCC Boys, Part 1 -- This story on the Civilian Conservation Corps first aired on the West Virginia PBS program "Outlook" on July 28, 2005. It was rebroadcast Jan. 25, 2007. Pat Sergent product this story.

The CCC Boys, Part 2 -- This story on the Civilian Conservation Corps first aired on the West Virginia PBS program "Outlook" on July 28, 2005. It was rebroadcast Jan. 25, 2007. Pat Sergent product this story.  

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An unknown group of CCC enrollees pose for photograph.

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SCS-7-C, Castle Rock, Colorado

 

 

 
 
What America and these men endured in the 1930's

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Run on Union Bank in New York in 1929

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The Dust Bowl in Oklahoma, 1934.

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Soup Line in Chicago

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Homeless man sleeping on a New York City pier

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute
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pea pickers in California, centering on F Owens Thompson, a mother of seven children, age 32

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Homeless in San Francisco, 1936. Dorothea Lange