The Civilian Conservation Corps & the Building of Guernsey State Park: With Folktales and Stories of the Park - Paperback
by Neil a. Waring (Author)
FDRs New Deal put unemployed young men back to work in 1930s America. These Civilian Conservation Corps workers built Wyoming's, Guernsey State Park, leaving behind a lasting legacy of their hard work and building imagination.This book relates the building of the park along with describing typical days in the lives of CCC workers. This work also brings to life folktales long ago left behind in the park.
Neil Waring, born in O'Neill, Nebraska and raised in Fairbury, Nebraska was educated at Peru State College, Wayne State College and the University of Wyoming. He spent 42 years in education, teaching, American History, Wyoming History, and Geography along with a variety of other social science and English classes. Although the majority of his teaching career was spent teaching at the high school level he also taught Wyoming History, as an adjunct professor, for area community colleges for nearly twenty years. In addition to this book Mr. Waring has published multiple short stories and historical pieces both online and in print. He writes a popular Wyoming blog, Wyoming Fact and Fiction, at http: //wyoming-fact-and-fiction.blogspot.com and can be followed on Twitter @wyohistoryguy
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