Author to talk about long-term impact of Civilian Conservation Corps at Somers Library

While the physical structures the Civilian Conservation Corps built in Iowa between 1933 and 1942 are still standing, its legacy hasn’t lasted as long in the memory of Iowans.
That’s what author Linda McCann has learned as she traveled the state, interviewing the few remaining CCC participants or the children and grandchildren of the men who built many of the structures in Iowa’s first state parks.
“Not all 60-year-olds know about it,” McCann said, let alone younger Iowans. She’s written about book about the CCC in Iowa and will be talking about the history of the corps and its work at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 29 at the Somers Library.
It’s not just a matter of people forgetting, though. McCann said the very nature of the CCC’s work in Iowa was somewhat intangible.
“In Iowa, 75 percent of their work projects actually dealt with soil erosion,” she said. “They did terracing, dams.”
Read more in the Sept. 19 edition.