Part 2 of our York Lake Group Hike was the 90th Anniversary ceremony to remember the fallen CCC Soldiers at Sandisfield State Forest.  We joined our DCR friends and Civilian Conservation Corps historians Kevin Titus, Mike Espisito and DCR Rangers including Alec Gillman, Mike Whalen, retired DCR Tom Ragusa, author Christy and Jan Butler, Cynthia Ragusa and more to come together at the actual camp site to lay a wreath and play taps in remembrance of the great men who helped in creating our State Forests.  Long live the three C’s!

In 1932, faced with the daunting task of trying to bring the country out of the Depression, newly elected President Franklin Roosevelt en- acted the National Reconstruction Act (NRA), which included the establishment of more than 2,800 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps throughout the country. The life style was semi-military. Barracks housed about fifty men in open bays; the pay was $30 a month. The men built roads and bridges, but their most lasting contribution was the excavation of what became York Lake. In December 1934, five CCC men were killed when the truck they were riding in skidded on ice on their way to church in Great Barrington.

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