Tag Archives: New Deal

Preservation Tales: “Progress” Goes Before a Fall

Posted on February 7, 2023 by admin

“It’s a historical building, but I guess it’s progress,” said Marv Blessing, an alumnus of Pine Village High School, in a recent interview with IndyStar.  After decades of work in historic preservation, little pains me more than this continuing assertion … Continue reading →

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Tales from the Road: Seeking the WPA in Historic Harrison County, Indiana

Posted on June 8, 2022 by admin

Some 34 years ago I traveled to the National Archives in Washington D.C. to go through Indiana’s WPA records. Perhaps the last WPA project was to compile the project records, each of which had an identifying index card, onto microfilm. … Continue reading →

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The Boys with the Shovels: The CCC at Pokagon State Park

Posted on September 22, 2015 by admin

For 62 years, veterans of the Civilian Conservation Corps, most of them from Company 556, have been coming to Indiana’s Pokagon State Park on the last Sunday in July, for the oldest continuous CCC reunion in the country. For the … Continue reading →

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