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Interview: Director of State Parks, Craig Whipple on the lasting impact of the CCC

Friday June 27, 2008
Mitch Wertlieb

Marshfield, VT

All this week, we've been hearing stories from Vermonters who served in the Civilian Conservation Corps. VPR's Mitch Wertlieb went to New Discovery State Park in Marshfield to speak with the Director of State Parks, Craig Whipple, about the lasting impact of CCC projects.

 

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 Structures built by CCC workers are still in use today.

 

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