The CCC in Idaho: Building Our State While Supporting People in Hard Times

Community members are invited to hear Ivar Nelson and Patricia Hart of the Idaho Humanities Council discuss the Civilian Conservation Corps' work in Idaho at the Moscow Public Library on Thursday, February 15 at 5:30 p.m. This program is made possible by the Latah County Library Foundation and the Idaho Humanities Council.
This presentation will take place at 5:30 p.m. at each of the seven branches of the Latah County Library District: February 15, Moscow Public Library; February 21, Deary Community Library; March 8, Potlatch Public Library; March 21, Bovill Community Library; March 28, Troy Community Library; April 12, Kendrick Grange Hall (614 E. Main St., Kendrick, ID), hosted by Juliaetta Community Library; April 18, Genesee Community Library.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was the most popular and longest lived of the New Deal programs initiated by the Roosevelt administration to mitigate the impact of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
In all, 86,775 men worked for the CCC in Idaho during the 10 years from 1933 – 1942. The CCC changed their lives and the vitality of Idaho’s economy and society.
Ivar Nelson is a former Director of the University of Idaho Press. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya, and a foreign service officer in Africa and to the United Nations. He has published books and magazines (including Palouse Journal) and written Mining Town: The Photographic Collection of T.N. Barnard and Nellie Stockbridge with Patricia Hart. He co‐founded Bookpeople of Moscow and is currently active with the revitalization of the Kenworthy Theater in Moscow.
Patricia Hart is a social and cultural historian with a focus on change in times of national crisis and the role of media in that process. An associate professor at the University of Idaho, she is also the interim director of the University of Idaho school of Journalism and Mass Media. She coordinates the American Studies Program and has taught extensively in the University Core, the American Studies Program, and the Honors Program. Her most recent book, A Home for Every Child, was chosen
for the Emil and Kathleen Sick Book‐Lecture Series Award for original scholarship in the field of Western history. Her recent article "Li/le Magazines and Li/le Wanderers" was recognized as an outstanding scholarly contribution by the American Journalism History Association.
Pre‐registration is not required for these free and educational library programs made possible by the Latah County Library Foundation and the Idaho Humanities Council.