On Monday June 6th at 7 p.m., the Mt. Tabor - Danby Historical Society will host author and historian Marty Podskoch who will give a Power Point presentation on the History of the Vermont Civilian Conservation Corps Camps. All are welcome at the Society's museum in the Silas Griffith Memorial Library, 74 South Main St., Danby.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began on March 31, 1933 under President Roosevelt's "New Deal" to relieve the poverty and unemployment of the Depression. CCC camps were set up in many towns, state parks, & forests. Workers built trails, roads, campsites, and dams, stocked fish, built and maintained fire tower observer's cabins & telephone lines, fought fires, and planted millions of trees. The CCC disbanded in 1942 due to the need for men in WW II.

There were approximately 30 Vermont towns with camps: Barre, Bethel, Brunswick, Burke, Colchester, Danby, Elmore, Groton, Jericho, Ludlow, Marshfield, Mendon, Middlesex, Milton, Montpelier, Northfield, Peru, Plymouth, Poultney, Rochester, Bellows Falls, Sharon, Shrewsbury, St. Albans, Stowe/Moscow, Thetford, Underhill, Waterbury, Weston, Wilmington, and Windsor.

Marty Podskoch is a retired teacher from Delhi (Catskills, NY) and the author of eleven books: Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps Camps: Their History, Memories and Legacy of the CCC; Fire Towers of the Catskills: Their History and Lore, Adirondack Fire Towers: Their History and Lore, the Southern Districts; Adirondack Fire Towers: Their History and Lore, the Northern Districts; Adirondack Stories: Historical Sketches; 101 More Adirondack Stories: Historical Sketches; The Adirondack 102 Club: Your Passport & Guide to the North Country. He also writes a weekly column called "Adirondack Stories," in five Adirondack newspapers. He wrote these two Connecticut books: Connecticut Civilian Conservation Corps Camps: Their History, Memories and Legacy of the CCC and the Connecticut 169 Club: Your Passport & Guide to Exploring Ct. He just completed tww Rhode Island books: RI CCC Camps and RI 39 Club.

Podskoch is presently gathering information for future books on the 30 CCC camps in Vermont and the 70 camps in Massachusetts . He is keenly interested in meeting people who may have CCC stories and photos to contribute to these books. Those that have information should contact him at 860-267-2442 or podskoch@comcast.net.