CALENDAR
June
Thursday to Saturday, 1-4pm
thru Labor Day
Exhibit
WPA 75th Anniversary in Berkeley and Its New Deal Context
Berkeley Historical Society & Museum
Berkeley, CA
Free
(510) 848-0181
New Mexico New Deal Art and
Architecture Photo Exhibits
thru November
Venues throughout NM
(505) 690-5845 www.newdeallegacy.org
Dorothea Lange Photo Exhibit
thru Labor Day
Roller Mill Museum
Mora/Cleveland, NM
(505) 690-5845www.newdeallegacy.org
"New Harmonies"
thru Dec
Live music and exhibits
from Federal Music Project
Venues throughout NM
(575) 534-0298www.bayouseco.com
19, 1pm
Contra Costa County Historical
Society
Speaker, Dr. Gray Brechin
Diablo Valley College
San Ramon, CA
$10
(925) 254-2295
24, 4:30pm
"An Affair of the Heart - FDR, Eleanor and Lucy"
Reading of letters between
FDR and the women in his life
Portrayers, Richard Marold,
Mary Jane Bradbury
National Park Service
Building
Santa Fe, NM
(505) 690-5845
July
5-31
LaborfestAnnual festival of art, films,
music, tours, and lectures
Various locations, San
Franisco Bay Area, CA
www.laborfest.net/index.html10, 9am-4pm
12th Annual New Deal
Festival
Celebrates the nation's first homestead community
Arthurdale, WV
$5, children under 5 free
www.arthurdaleheritage.org
orwww.newdealfestival.org
22, 7pm
"Another World Was Possible: New Deal Expansion of Public
Education During the Great Depression, And Its Contraction Now"
Speaker, Dr. Gray
Brechin
Berkeley City College
Auditorium
Berkeley, CA
Free http://www.laborfest.net
29 (and Aug 5), 7pm
"The New Deal for a New Deal"
Colorado Springs Art Center
Colorado Springs, CO
(719) 685-9286 Legs.diamond@comcast.net
August
6, 4:30pm
Dyanna Taylor shares stories
about her grandmother, photographer
Dorothea Lange
National Park Service
Building
Santa Fe, NM
(505) 690-5845www.newdeallegacy.org
14
2nd Annual
Frances Perkins Garden Party
The Brick House
New Castle, MEwww.francesperkinscenter.org
September
23, 4:30pm
"New Deal Artists - Jan
Marfyak and Milton Hebald"
Presenters: Jan Marfyak (son); Karen Lupton and Linda Carfagno
National Park Service
Building
Santa Fe, NM
(505) 690-5845www.newdeallegacy.org
25-30
Greenbelt Historic Bus Tour
Tour "GreenTowns" created
by New Deal
Greenbelt, MD
Greenhills,
OH, and
Greendale, WS
$599 Greendale Historical Society members
$699 non-members
(414) 423-7064
thegreendalehistorical@gmail.com
newdeallegacy.org/PDFfiles/Tour_Flyer_2.pdf
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Walter Atwood
Gray Brechin
Chris Breiseth
Barbara Dimond
Alex Hertel-Fernandez
Price Fishback
Robert Leighninger
David Lembeck
Jan Marfyak
Sarah Munro
Charles Nuckolls
Joseph J. Plaud
Harvey Smith, President
Glory Southwind
Al Stein
Nick Taylor
Dallan Wordekemper
Kathy Flynn, Executive Director
Lynda Grasty, Assistant Director
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Greetings!
Welcome to the New Deal News. We're in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Millions are jobless, homeless, and hopeless. Our government's response has been to bail out Wall Street. Meanwhile, for those on "Main Street" hard times just keep getting harder. We need a New New Deal - policies that serve people, not special interests. The New Deal put millions to work during the Great Depression. The New Deal's legacy is all around us - roads, bridges, parks, schools, libraries, hospitals, stadiums, post offices, public art, writings, and photography. Social Security, unemployment insurance, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are among the New Deal programs that benefit all of us today. The National New Deal Preservation Association (NNDPA) holds the New Deal up as an example of what government has done and can do again to help those on "Main Street." Please join us.Harvey Smith, President |
NEW DEAL PROFILE
Photographer Rondal Partridge
Rondal Partridge  | Job Training Center  | served in the Navy. After the war, he photographed for magazines Look, Life, and Collier's. Rondal's writings are as much a part of his work as is his photography. "I don't call it art," he says. "I make documents of what I see and what I think."
With thanks to the New Deal Network |
UP FRONT
WPA Stadium at Risk
Since it was built in 1938, Civic Stadium in Eugene, Oregon has been a community-gathering place for everything from high school sports to rodeo. The 6,800-seat stadium is one of the oldest baseball parks in the nation. For 40 years it was home to the Eugene Emeralds. In 2008, the Civic was added to the National Register of Historic Places. But in 2009 the Emeralds announced they would be moving to University of Oregon's newly constructed PK Park, and the Civic's future is now in doubt. The school district is exploring redeveloping the property for housing. A local group, Save Civic Stadium, has begun a campaign to restore the park, and commissioned a study into how to keep the stadium economically viable. A documentary is in the works about the historic, social, and cultural aspects that have made the Civic a cornerstone of the community. READ MORE >>
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Taking Stock of the New Deal
San Diego City/County Administration Building  | |
OPINION
Another World Was Possible
by Dr. Gray Brechin
California's fiscal catastrophe has Merced's Elim Union Elementary, WPA 1937  | produced sharp increases in fees, firings, and service cutbacks to state education from kindergartens on up. Administrators and politicians tell us that they share our pain, but say "There is no alternative" to the wreck of what was once the finest public education system in the nation. The record of the New Deal contradicts this assertion. WPA workers and Public Works Administration (PWA) grants and loans produced hundreds of handsome and modern schools throughout California during the Depression. Entire community college campuses sprang up within a few years to provide citizens with unprecedented educational opportunities. Across the nation, the PWA erected classrooms and laboratories, dormitories, athletic facilities, museums, libraries, and teaching hospitals, many embellished by WPA artists. As with our New Deal-built roads, parks, airports, dams, and sewer systems, we have been coasting on that cultural infrastructure for more than seven decades, unaware of the debt we owe to those who built it, or of its startling contrast with our own lack of investment in and commitment to future generations.
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AROUND THE COUNTRY
Arizona
New
Deal Arizona is the newest chapter of the NNDPA. The group received a grant from
the Arizona Humanities Council to reprint a
popular map of the state's New Deal sites. The maps will be available at a CCC
traveling exhibit sponsored by the Arizona Historical
Society and distributed at state Centennial events. Join the
Arizona chapter and share your stories about the Arizona New Deal.
aznewdeal@yahoo.com
California
LaborFest, held in the Bay area during the month of July, annually commemorates the 1934
San Francisco General Strike with art, films, music, tours, and lectures. This
year's celebration honors the 75th anniversary of the WPA in Northern
California that put thousands to work building parks, libraries, schools, city
buildings, and other civic projects throughout region.
For more information go to: www.laborfest.net/index.html
(415)
642-8066
New Mexico
Thanks to the New Mexico Humanities Council the New Mexico chapter of the NNDPA is reprinting three maps of New Deal sites. The colorful maps, created for the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, show the location of structures, public art, CCC camps, parks, and monuments in the northern, central, and southern New Mexico. newdeal@cybermesa.com
(505) 690-5845
With funding from the Stockman Family Foundation, the New Mexico chapter of the NNDPA is preserving the work of New Mexico artists Gene Kloss and B. J. O. Nordfeldt. The etchings and prints, produced during 1930s for the Federal Arts Project, went to schools and other institutions across"Winter Mass" Gene Kloss Etching  | the state. The NNDPA is replacing the original mattes with acid-free materials. All the works have not yet been located, so please help us find them. We will pick up and return the artwork.
newdeal@cybermesa.com
(505) 690-5845
New York
Ground was finally broken
late last month for the triangular four-and-a-half acre
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park across the East River from
the United Nations. A formal groundbreaking will be held this summer to
celebrate the start of the final phase of Roosevelt Island's planned
development. READ MORE >>
Children's Museum of the Arts in New York City has a collection of 19 rare and exciting works done by children during the 1938 WPA Children's Art Project. Seen through the expressive viewpoint only children can create, these works are a unique view into New York City's style architecture and landmarks of the 1930s. READ MORE >>
Texas
On May 15, Friends of Palo Duro Canyon, unveiled a bronze plaque honoring those who worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Palo Duro Canyon State Park during the Great Depression. The CCC "boys" built the road into the canyon, water system, bridges, trails, cabins, and the El Coronado Lodge. The NNDPA awarded commemorative coins to CCC alums and some family members. "I sure didn't expect then at 17 years of age I would be back here in my 90s doing this today!" said Ed Davis, who served in the park. READ MORE >>
Texas Parks & Wildlife is recording the stories of
the CCC boys.
janelle.taylor@tpwd.state.tx.us
(512) 389-4665
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MAKING NEWS
UC Berkeley historian and NNDPA board member Gray Brechin is cataloguing the legacy of the New Deal in California. A Merced radio show, "Off the 99," interviewed Brechin to learn more about this incredible undertaking. www.mercedsunstar.com/wpa/
Old glories of New Deal still chime in a time of crisis
by Mary O'Hara
In 1940, Eugene A. Delorenzo was just 17 years old when he boarded a train bound from New York City to rural Idaho after his father suggested he sign up with the CCC. Delorenzo recalls: "We built a road, including a bridge, fought forest fires, and provided for all of our own support - food, shelter, and recreation. All this from a bunch of kids who knew less than nothing about anything other than how to get along on the mean streets of New York. It saved my life, believe me. I was headed down the lonely and inevitable path to prison, and was rescued by the CCC. They did more than build roads and repair buildings!"
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Green Jobs Proposal: Put the Young and Unemployed to Work Cleaning BP's
Mess, Then Send BP the Bill
by Robert Reich
The President should order BP to establish a $5 billion clean-up fund, and immediately
put America's army of unemployed young people to work saving the Gulf Coast.
Call it the new Civilian Conservation Corps. READ MORE >>
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