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Join us in hearing from PVSP Park Ranger, Jamie Petrucci, as he speaks about the history of Civilian Conservation Corps activities at Patapsco Valley State Park!

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25. The CCC was a major part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal that supplied manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments. The CCC was designed to supply jobs for young men and to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression. In this program, we will go over the history of the CCC in America, the program’s lasting impacts, and we’ll learn of areas in our community where we can still see remnants or intact items that the CCC built.

This talk will be held in the Ellicott Room of the Miller Branch Library. Registration is encouraged, but not required.

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Ranger Jamie Petrucci has been a Ranger in the Maryland Park Service for the past 16 years; stationed at Rocks State Park for the first two years and 14 years at Patapsco Valley. In that time, along with his duties as a Ranger, has studied the history of the CCC, specifically Camp Tydings; which was a work camp in what is now the Avalon area of the Patapsco Valley, and has been interpreting and teaching about the subject for the past 9 years. Ranger Jamie interviewed veterans of the CCC, read personal journals and studied the subject extensively.