re: #240 Decatur Deb

Just back from several days at a small Alabama state park. Here’s a photo the park host made of our cabin.

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Mandatory political content: It was built by a 200 man CCC company in 1935. The framed document over the fireplace is the Thanksgiving, 1935 menu. The men building it got 30/month, 25 of which was deducted and sent home to their ‘relief’ families. I doubt the congress of the country holds the brains and good will to ever do such a thing again.

My Dad was in CCC when he was very young. He used to speak of it fondly.
His family were rural Georgia farmers. He was one of 11 kids. I am sure that money helped get them through the depression.