I am currently sitting in a beautiful 66-year-old cabin, dark, drinking coffee in a beautiful handmade cup, having read the Ancient Living Text, and now quietly alone with my thoughts. It is a CCC, Civilian Conservation Corp, cabin, built sometime around 1936 when the CCC was building well-crafted beauty all over America. We are at Norris Dam State Park camping with our daughters and family, (they are actually camping, we are the base camp). Norris Dam was the first project of the CCC and the first of the new TVA established by President F.D.R. to rebuild America in the midst of the Great Depression and devastating natural disasters that plagued our country, especially in the south and mid-west. The idea was to have young men 17-28, build great projects across America in return for room, (barracks they built), board, and pay of 30$ a month most of which was required to be sent home to support their families. It was set up much like the army and many of the projects they built still stand and are serving us today, (the cabin that currently is keeping me warm and dry). Well-crafted beauty, massive earth projects, using locally based materials, to serve our best interests by young people needing work. History worthy of repeating; young Americans doing great things.
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| CCC Historic Cabins at Norris Dam S.P. |
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