![]() American Experience: Civilian Conservation Corps $24.99 I just watched this. On PBS. It's such a vivid representation of the times of my father who was born in this era. All his stories of "why" a dust bowl are here. And how our parks and trails were built, and our saving environmental actions came to being...here. Dad was in Ag. (a Dean of Ag Econ.) He told these depression stories- that also hit his poor farm family hard in East Tenn. They kept going somehow farming, selling hooked rugs to the north. This film represents surviving. I loved the long unseen images, stories of those that were "just poor" in these times of soup kitchens, and our great depression, and what was "done about it." Learning of society through the words of ordinary people was brilliant to carry this film's story. It fits, you are narrated through the many voices, through how it felt to be there, how getting that work in the CCC offered hope and put desperate people into productive solutions. Dad always said something I heard here, it was as close to a possible revolution as he ever wanted to come to in our country. If you watch these times and how Roosevelt responded, the forces that opposed it, how the CCC came to be, it's there. People were reduced so low, this shows you this and builds a compassionate response. That is there too and what might have been, and how it was going in countries across the oceans too, that is there. In the film someone says the seeds were there to bring the country into complete revolt....against this we see what FDR built, this film shows what can be. It seems so relevant now-and I propose it is what we need now. Understanding the missions and work of the CCCer's, built with so many out of work- now it seems we also need a dynamic work movement- seems so essential to consider a context that puts this into a national model of hope and healing. Heal the man, heal the land, the film says was the slogan of this conservation movement. It seems so important we listen now. As the film says of Roosevelt, the perfect match of man and moment, this New Deal was made. Work more important than relief. Watching the CCC develop here...its design, its emphasis on conservation, the vision, it really must be watched to renew your understandings. It's going to be my Christmas present to my father along with a Jimmie RodgersJimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler (American Made Music Series)RCA Country Legends recording because he loves him. ![]() Latin American Economy & Business Comes With Latin America Weekly Report $1,525.00 Provides information on economic indicators, country-by-country, together with comparable data to allow long-term trends to be assessed. ![]() American Terminal E-RB10-100 16/14-Gauge #10 Economy Vinyl Rings $5.52 American Terminal E-Rb10-100 Economy Vinyl Rings (16/14-Gauge, #10) ![]() American Terminal E-BCBN-100 16/14-Gauge Economy Nylon Butt Connectors $3.96 American Terminal E-Bcbn-100 Economy Nylon Butt Connectors (16/14-Gauge) |
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