Reply #6: I am wondering if part of her story is not referring to the CCCamps

[jwirr]

which built the roads, planted the trees, created the parks etc. Her grandmother making clothes was part of the WPA. WPA also was responsible for those beautiful murals we see in many courthouses and many copied the records in those courthouses into the forms we use today when we are trying to search our genealogies. I think both works programs were in her story.

As a archivist in our local museum I had a section of photos that pictured CCCamp workers. Each summer at least one or two would stop to look at the old pictures and talk about those days. They saved many a family and young person who had no place else to go.

I appreciate this story because the dust storms in Oklahoma would have made it doubly hard to survive. She is right - they were tough.