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Civilian Conservation Corps

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Valentine’s Day Alternative: The Boys of Bergen

The Mahwah Museum lecture is happening Thursday

If you don’t have a sweetheart to celebrate Valentine’s Day with this year, don’t worry. The Mahwah Museum has an alternative event this Thursday that can get you better acquainted with the Civilian Conservation Corps – a group of young, unmarried men who worked in the first Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal work program in the 1930's. The museum posted a description of the “Boys of Bergen” lecture, happening at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, Feb. 14, at the Ramapo Reformed Church: Kathleen Duxbury will present “The Boys of Bergen – Remembering the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Bergen County, NJ” for the Mahwah Museum Lecture Series.  The lecture will be held in the Ramapo Reformed Church Educational Building, 100 Island Rd, Mahwah.    The …

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