Archaeologist to speak in Pierce Saturday, May 16
Robbin Johnston, the North Fork-Palouse District Archaeologist will be the featured speaker at an event in Pierce Saturday, May 16 beginning at 1 p.m. at the Pierce Community Center.
The State Historical Society has arranged for Johnston to present a talk in Pierce entitled "The CCC and the Landscape of the Clearwater National Forest."
Johnston's talk will include a slideshow presentation. He will focus on the North Fork region of the Clearwater, the problems and obstacles the local landscape presented, what the area was like during that time and what it meant to kids that came from cities to work in the CCC camps.
May is Idaho Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month and the Idaho State Historical Society is sponsoring many events throughout Idaho celebrating the legacy of The New Deal, a 1933 national relief program that established the public works programs known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
Thousands of young men came from other states to Idaho as CCC workers to build roads, bridges, buildings, trails, lookouts, and airstrips.
The Pierce-Weippe Chamber of Commerce will provide refreshments. Also that day, May 16, the J. Howard Bradbury Memorial Logging Museum in Pierce will be open to visitors from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.