Join the Adirondack Museum for the 2012 Cabin Fever Sunday series. The series hits the road again with the fifth program, the “Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps: History, Memories and Legacy of the CCC.” The program will held in North Creek, N.Y. on Sunday, March 11, 2012.The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public works program that operated from 1933 to 1942 as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. In the Adirondacks, enrollees built trails, roads, campsites and dams, they stocked fish, built and maintained fire towers, observers’ cabins and telephone lines, fought fires, and planted millions of trees. Learn about camp life and Adirondack projects with author Marty Podskock.
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