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HISTORY: Suggestion for Syd

| May 20, 2018 1:00 AM

I hope local historian Syd Albright will write a Sunday article about the CCC and the WPA, focused narrowly on the Northwest.

There was a CCC camp near Cataldo. The WPA built the Grand Coulee Dam, etc.

BOB RIDOUT

Coeur d’Alene

P.S. It went far beyond just giving unemployed men employment. Money they earned went home to their families, they learned to read and write, they served us well in World War II.


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