NATIONAL 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE NEW DEAL--2008

We look ahead to the 75th Anniversary of The New Deal in 2008 with a variety of National celebrations and events. Please contact NNDPA if you would consider hosting an event in your region, and if you know of any public sites available for events in your area, please contact us with that information.

Ongoing Presentations by Board Members & Invited Speakers
Upon request (contact Kathy Flynn) board members from NNDPA are available for presentations, symposia and workshops on a variety of topics from history to conservation. These services will be performed on an expense paid basis.

Don't forget to look in our newsletter section for additional activities.

Copies of video presentations made at the May 2002 NNDPA Conference in Chicago at Roosevelt University are now available:

Short talk by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt at the AIC
Introduction by Connie Kieffer, short talk by Kathy Flynn, followed by a Panel presentation chaired by Stan Rosen at the AIC
Talk by Christopher Reed at the AIC
Talk by Margaret Rung at the AIC
Francis V. O'Connor introduction, talk by George Mavigliano at the AIC

On exhibit through August 11, 2007 -
"Journey through the Great Depression." From the crash of the stock market, through the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the exhibit takes visitors on a "road trip" through the 1930s -- an expedition that explores the broad range of conditions experienced by local residents in their 11-year journey through the Great Depression. Guest curator is Dr. Sandra Harmon, retired ISU professor of History. The McLean County Museum of History is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., (FREE admission day), and Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Closed on Sundays from Memorial Day to Labor Day). Admission is $2.00 for adults, and $1.00 for children 12 and under. Group tours are available by calling 309/827-0428. The McLean County Museum of History is located in the old county courthouse at 200 N. Main Street, Bloomington, Illinois, 61701. The Museum's permanent exhibit, Encounter on the Prairie, features the history of the citizens from 1830 to the present in four galleries: People, Politics, Farming and Work.

Vermont
Time Magazine's Bonus Section, Oct. 2005 and photos by Asia Kapka.

Massachusetts

The Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center, online at http://www.fdrheritage.org which is dedicated to advancing the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Deal, is pleased to announce that our Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Museum opened on Saturday, July 24, 2004 in the heart of historic Worcester, Massachusetts at the renovated Union Station. A new feature on the FDR Heritage Center Museum’s homepage as well as the Museum specialty top page of the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center and Museum is the “Featured Exhibit of the Month”. Each month’s special exhibit is previewed at http://www.fdrheritage.org or the Museum’s top page at http://www.fdrheritage.org/fdr_museum_preview.htm. Please visit our FDR Museum links to learn more about the FDR American Heritage Center Museum.

Illinois
- The Art institute of Chicago and the National New Deal Preservation Association-Midwest Chapter together brought you “The Radical in New Deal Printmaking” presented by Mark Pascale, Art Institute curator, and Elizabeth Seaton, Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University. This program, on March 17, 2005 was open to the public and was free with general museum admission at The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Fullerton Hall.

The Speakers discussed the roots of social realism in American printmaking and focused on WPA prints, including those made in Chicago. Among the issues addressed were radicalism and its relationship to style, technique, and the circulation of WPA prints.

- Paul Jones at P. O. Box 608, Ridgway, IL 62979 is doing research for a documentary on the CCC veterans. He is looking for names and addresses of those CCC alumni still living so he can communicate with them about their experiences and memories. Please encourage any of these men to contact him.

Louisiana
The 70th Anniversary of the WPA was commemorated in Baton Rouge this May with two presentations: “WPA 70th Anniversary: A New Deal for Preservation and Access” and “Bridges of Memory: New Directions in Oral History”. For more information on this commemoration please contact Al Stein, Head of Louisiana Div. and City Archives Collection at astein@gno.lib.la.us

Louisiana's Heritage Tourism Development in the Louisiana Office of Tourism has just completed an identification and interpretation of the Louisiana WPA Depression Era murals in public buildings located across the state. They have compiled an outstanding website presentation with color renditions of the murals and information about each one. Check http://www.louisianatravel.com and the home page for this presentation is THE WPA-FAP PROJECT: The Great Depression & Louisiana. Contact person that put it all together so beautifully is Sharon Calcote, Director, Louisiana Heritage Tourism Development. Her email is scalcote@crt.state.la.us

Colorado Springs
This group's name in The New Deal for the New Deal and they have tshirts with their logo and the phrase "Art in our Own Backyard."