Another Day, Another Dollar: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Catskills [Paperback]

Diane Galusha (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 2008

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Franklin D. Roosevelt s New Deal program to help young, unemployed men during the Great Depression by hiring them to work in a mammoth forest army, completed thousands of vital conservation projects nationwide. They were paid just $30 a month a dollar a day. In the Catskills, at CCC camps in Ulster County, Greene County, Schoharie County, Delaware County, and Broome County, city boys and their country cousins, under the tutelage of local woodsmen and mechanics, wielded axes, mattocks and shovels to transform the Catskills in subtle and significant ways, planting millions of trees (more than 3 ½ million in Delaware County in 1934 alone), fighting stream and soil erosion, and building roads, fire towers, hiking trails, ski trails, and the campsites at North Lake, Woodland Valley, Devil s Tombstone and Beaverkill. This new history, illustrated with more than 100 photographs and maps, tells their story--who they were, where they came from, what they did, and the legacy they left behind.

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Review

Galusha s book serves as a vivid reminder of what we owe to the people who crafted and implemented this far-reaching New Deal program aimed at reversing decades of environmental abuse. It also offers a glimpse of how, with the same sort of vision, cooperation, hard work and political will we might tackle the earth-altering changes that darken our very doorstep. --foreword by Bill McKibben

About the Author

Diane Galusha has written several books of local and regional history, including "Liquid Assets, The Story of New York City s Water System"; "Through a Woman s Eye: Pioneering Photographers of Rural Upstate"; "When Cauliflower was King"; and "As the River Runs, A History of Halcottsville, N.Y." The founding president of the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown, Galusha is also deeply involved in promoting the legacy of John Burroughs through preservation of Woodchuck Lodge, the literary naturalist s Roxbury summer home. She is a former journalist and newspaper editor, currently employed at the Catskill Watershed Corporation in Margaretville.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Black Dome Press; 1 edition (September 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883789613
• ISBN-13: 978-1883789619
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,805,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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