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April 18-19, 2009 Hyde Park, NY, NNDPA Board and Advisors Retreat will be held at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Library. All members and friends of the organization are invited. For more information contact newdeal@cybermesa.com or call (505) 473-3985 or cell 505) 690-5845.

Currently a Traveling Photo Exhibit “This Great Nation Will Endure” from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Library and Museum is on display. Scheduling can be handled through Lynn Bassanese by email at lynn.bassanese@nara.gov.

A New Deal, Part II Article in USA Today 10/5/03 USA Today History's Lessons by Jason Smith

 

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CURRENT ACTIVITIES 2009

 

ARIZONA

Grand Canyon New Exhibit “It Saved My Life, the CCC at Grand Canyon 1933-42” is available to travel. Contact James_Schenck@nps.gov for details.

ILLINOIS

The Midwest NNDPA Chapter has a series of 25 minute in-studio interviews with people involved in ND projects including CCC at the Evanston Community Media Center on DV tape with distribution on DVD’s. Copies of scholarly ND presentations at a 2003 NNDPA national conference held in Chicago are also for sale Contact wpamurals@compuserve.edu

NEW MEXICO

JAN--AUG TRAVELING NEW DEAL PHOTO EXHIBIT

MAY-JUNE LINCOLN MONUMENT
Speaker/ Reception—Kathryn Flynn, May 9
JULY-AUG LOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Speaker/Reception to be announced

Los Lunas The Los Lunas Museum of Heritage and Art is featuring a photographic exhibit of work by Dorothea Lange August—Sept. 2009. Dr. Richard Melzer spoke about the CCC August 15 and B.G. Burris will be speaking Sept. 1 on Photographic Records of Rural America.
Kathryn Flynn, Exec. Director of the National New Deal Preservation Assoc. is scheduled to speak on Oct. 3 at 2 p.m. on the New Deal Art in New Mexico.
Richard Marold from Colorado Springs will give a Chautauqua presentation of Franklin D. Roosevelt on Oct. 10 at the museum at 2 p.m.
More information about these activities can be obtained at (505) 352-7720. The museum is located on Main St. and Luna Ave. which is under the downtown Water Tower.
 

TEXAS

Dalworthington Gardens/Arlington: This was created as one of the Resettlement Project’s Subsistence Homestead Project. There are some who want to commemorate its history by having it designated a historic community and have plaques put on the remaining homes. They would like to see Park Drive renamed to its original name, Eleanor Drive. If you know anyone from this town that might live elsewhere now, have them contact Kelly North in Arlington, TX at (817) 274-7879 or email to kkrnorth@sbcglobal.net.

Nacogdoches—The East Texas Historical Society Annual Conference is scheduled for Sept. 24-26 and will be held at the Hotel Fredonia. Two papers on the New Deal will be presented on Friday, Sept. 25 in the morning They are “Art in Your Own Backyard: Mexican Muralists in the PWAP and Small Towns in East Texas” given by Victoria H. Cummins and “From Mud Pies to the Tejas Warrior: Allie Victorie Tennant, Texas Centennial Sculptor. This will be done by Dr. Light Cummins. Both are professors at Austin College in Sherman, Texas and Light Cummins is the Texas State Historian.

WEST VIRGINIA

Pricketts Fort Park and Visitor Center is offering GEAR UP activities to educators and students this 2009 Fall. The new artisan-led hands-on outreach program called Teaching History Through the Arts will include field trips and in-school workshops for FREE while funds last. Specifics about this can be found on the fort’s website which is www.historythroughthearts.org. Or call Pricketts Fort at (304) 363-3030. Educator materials are also accessible by visiting www.prickettsfort.org.