Post by sam on Jul 14, 2010 20:15:04 GMT -5
For immediate release: Jul 14, 2010
Posted by: [DNR]
Contact: Fred Wooley
Phone: (260) 833-2012
Email: dnrnews@dnr.in.gov
CCC open house/reunion at Pokagon SP, July 25
Pokagon State Park Interpretive Services will host the annual Civilian Conservation Corps, Company 556, open house and reunion on July 25 at the park's nature center.
The event honors the work of the "boys who built Pokagon" during the CCC years of 1934-42. For 50 years, Company 556 has held an annual reunion the last Sunday in July. This year is the 57th year for the open house and the 85th anniversary of the state park.
Activities will be held throughout the day in the nature center auditorium. From 9 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., guests can join CCC veterans to view photo albums from the park's early years and other memorabilia of the CCC days. At this informal gathering, guests can meet CCC veterans to hear stories of their times at Pokagon.
At 10:30 a.m. there will be comments by Fred Wooley, park interpreter, and a group photo of CCC veterans and their spouses and special friends.
To end the gathering, an 11:30 a.m. slide presentation of the CCC days will be shown, followed by a walk through the area where the CCC camp stood.
The day's events are free and open to all; however, the normal park entrance fee of $5 for in-state vehicles or $7 for out-of-state vehicles will be charged. Those with an annual entrance pass can use that. For further information call the park at (260) 833-2012.
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Posted by: [DNR]
Contact: Fred Wooley
Phone: (260) 833-2012
Email: dnrnews@dnr.in.gov
CCC open house/reunion at Pokagon SP, July 25
Pokagon State Park Interpretive Services will host the annual Civilian Conservation Corps, Company 556, open house and reunion on July 25 at the park's nature center.
The event honors the work of the "boys who built Pokagon" during the CCC years of 1934-42. For 50 years, Company 556 has held an annual reunion the last Sunday in July. This year is the 57th year for the open house and the 85th anniversary of the state park.
Activities will be held throughout the day in the nature center auditorium. From 9 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., guests can join CCC veterans to view photo albums from the park's early years and other memorabilia of the CCC days. At this informal gathering, guests can meet CCC veterans to hear stories of their times at Pokagon.
At 10:30 a.m. there will be comments by Fred Wooley, park interpreter, and a group photo of CCC veterans and their spouses and special friends.
To end the gathering, an 11:30 a.m. slide presentation of the CCC days will be shown, followed by a walk through the area where the CCC camp stood.
The day's events are free and open to all; however, the normal park entrance fee of $5 for in-state vehicles or $7 for out-of-state vehicles will be charged. Those with an annual entrance pass can use that. For further information call the park at (260) 833-2012.
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Link to this event: www.in.gov/portal/news_events/55664.htm
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