Civilian Conservation Corps Stories
After traveling thousands of miles from 1997-2005 and gathering the history and stories of the men and women who worked on the fire towers in the Catskill and Adirondack mountains, Marty Podskoch found a group of Civilian Conservation Corps pictures in a home in Saranac Lake.
After a busy day planting trees, building roads, making trails & camp sites at Fish Creek State park near Saranack Lake, NY, the boys devour a hearty supper at 5 PM. The food was prepared in the small mess kitchen and the boys slept in the temts in the rear of the photo. Later, wooden barracks were built that provided the boys with protection against the harsh Adirondack winters.
He then turned his efforts to document the history and lore of the young men who worked during the Depression in Franklin Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps camps from 1933-42. In these nine short years these men worked to preserve our natural resources, improve and develop our state and national parks and forests.
In 2006 he started doing research on the CCC camps in the Adirondacks and the following year he gave 54 talks on these camps throughout the Adirondacks and surrounding cities.
In 2008 Marty has now turned to gather the stories and history of the CCC camps in Connecticut where he presently lives. "It is a race against time to find these men and collect their stories and pictures of their days in the CCCs."
