Lecture & Book Signing

McDonald & Woodward Publishing, of Granville, OH, is pleased to announce that two of their authors, the husband/wife team of Ren and Helen Davis, will be visiting central Ohio to talk about their book, "Our Mark on This Land: A Guide to the Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in America's Parks."
 
The Davises will be lecturing at the Newark Campus of The Ohio State University on Monday, September 9, in the Reese Center. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. with their talk, "How Newark Residents, the Ohio Historical Society and Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps Saved the Newark Earthworks." The event is free and open to the public.
 
This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps.  During the nine years that the CCC was in existence, from 1933 to 1942, more than three million men planted billions of trees, restored worn out forests and farmlands, fought forest and range fires, erected hundreds of fire towers, constructed lakes and dams, blazed thousands of miles of trails, planned and graded roads, and built numerous cabins, lodges, shelters, bridges, and other structures.  This work of the CCC placed a rich, distinct, and durable imprint on more than 700 local, state, and national parks throughout the United States -- and in the process created a personality of landscape that generations have since come to recognize and appreciate., and Ren and Helen Davis have been touring the United States, giving talks about what the CCC did at various sites.