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Tag Archives: WPA
Preservation Tales: “Progress” Goes Before a Fall
“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
Posted in On the Road Less Taken..., Preservation Tales, Tales from the Road, The Past is Ever Present...
Tagged historic architecture, Hoosier basketball, New Deal, Pine Village IN, WPA
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Tales from the Road: Seeking the WPA in Historic Harrison County, Indiana
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
The Boys with the Shovels: The CCC at Pokagon State Park
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
Posted in On the Road Less Taken..., The Past is Ever Present..., Uncategorized
Tagged Angola Indiana, CCC, New Deal, Pokagon State Park, Steuben County, WPA
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The Road Less Taken: Indiana’s Upper Right Corner
I always love a chance to go to the northern part of our state where the glaciers left behind lots of lakes and rolling terrain. And Pokagon State Park, one of our earliest, dating to 1925, in Steuben County is … Continue reading
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Tagged Angola Indiana, Clay's Family Restaurant, Indiana roads, nostalgia, Orland Indiana, road food, Steuben County, WPA
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