Living New Deal http://livingnewdeal.org Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:35:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 Memories of Photographer Rondal Partridge (1917-2015) http://livingnewdeal.org/memories-of-photographer-rondal-partridge-1917-2015/ http://livingnewdeal.org/memories-of-photographer-rondal-partridge-1917-2015/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:44:31 +0000 http://livingnewdeal.org/?p=75736 Ron Partridge was still working in his Berkeley, California, dark room well into his 90s. This brought his life full circle. Ron began his career in the darkroom, assisting his mother, photographer Imogen Cunningham. Ron went on to assist both... Read More

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]]> http://livingnewdeal.org/discovering-new-deal-new-york/feed/ 0 The New Deal at the Movies http://livingnewdeal.org/the-new-deal-at-the-movies/ http://livingnewdeal.org/the-new-deal-at-the-movies/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:08:51 +0000 http://livingnewdeal.org/?p=75705 Nothing brings to life the countless ways the New Deal saved millions from bleak poverty while catapulting the nation into the 20th century like the movies its agencies produced. The Living New Deal’s Berkeley Associate John Elrick compiled a list... Read More

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]]> http://livingnewdeal.org/the-new-deal-at-the-movies/feed/ 0 The Mastodon Next Door http://livingnewdeal.org/the-mastodon-next-door/ http://livingnewdeal.org/the-mastodon-next-door/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:04:28 +0000 http://livingnewdeal.org/?p=75702 It was September 1935. A WPA project was underway to drain and dredge a muck-filled pond on Charing Cross Road in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a leafy suburb Detroit, a city hard hit by the Great Depression. Suddenly, a steam shovel... Read More

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]]> http://livingnewdeal.org/the-mastodon-next-door/feed/ 0 To Stand for Centuries http://livingnewdeal.org/to-stand-for-centuries/ http://livingnewdeal.org/to-stand-for-centuries/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:17:44 +0000 http://livingnewdeal.org/?p=75720 On August 4 the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service named Colorado’s Mount Morrison CCC Camp and Red Rocks Amphitheatre—both built by the CCC— as National Historic Landmarks. They are the first New Deal-era historic sites to... Read More

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]]> http://livingnewdeal.org/to-stand-for-centuries/feed/ 0 Social Security at 80: Still Missing the Keystone http://livingnewdeal.org/social-security-at-80-still-missing-the-keystone/ http://livingnewdeal.org/social-security-at-80-still-missing-the-keystone/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:01:12 +0000 http://livingnewdeal.org/?p=75708 On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, declaring:  “If the Senate and the House of Representatives … had done nothing more than pass this Bill, the session would be regarded as historic for all time.” Nonetheless,... Read More

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]]> http://livingnewdeal.org/social-security-at-80-still-missing-the-keystone/feed/ 0 Discovering New Deal New York http://livingnewdeal.org/discovering-new-deal-new-york-2/ http://livingnewdeal.org/discovering-new-deal-new-york-2/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2015 00:56:32 +0000 http://livingnewdeal.org/?p=75693 Born in 1944 at the height of World War II, I missed the WPA by just one year. Growing up in rural Virginia I never heard of it; nor in the years I lived Germany—first as an Army brat, and... Read More

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]]> http://livingnewdeal.org/discovering-new-deal-new-york-2/feed/ 2 The History of the World in One Mural http://livingnewdeal.org/the-history-of-the-world-in-one-mural/ http://livingnewdeal.org/the-history-of-the-world-in-one-mural/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:29:56 +0000 http://livingnewdeal.org/?p=75181 It’s well known that there are some WPA murals in Bronx’s DeWitt Clinton High School, notably one called “The History of the World”.  But who knew it was a monumental work 194 feet long?  One thousand square feet in total,... Read More

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]]> http://livingnewdeal.org/the-history-of-the-world-in-one-mural/feed/ 0 Notes from the Field: A Reunion for Indiana CCC’ers http://livingnewdeal.org/notes-from-the-field-a-reunion-for-indiana-cccers/ http://livingnewdeal.org/notes-from-the-field-a-reunion-for-indiana-cccers/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:26:45 +0000 http://livingnewdeal.org/?p=75062   Glory-June Greiff writes us from Indiana:   For 62 years, on the last Sunday in July, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) veterans have been coming to Indiana’s Pokagon State Park, in the far northeast corner of the state, for the... Read More

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]]> http://livingnewdeal.org/notes-from-the-field-a-reunion-for-indiana-cccers/feed/ 0 Aug. 24: Gray Brechin (and New Deal San Francisco) at the Mechanics’ Institute http://livingnewdeal.org/aug-24-gray-brechin-and-new-deal-san-francisco-at-the-mechanics-institute/ http://livingnewdeal.org/aug-24-gray-brechin-and-new-deal-san-francisco-at-the-mechanics-institute/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:32:33 +0000 http://livingnewdeal.org/?p=74986 On Monday, August 24, Living New Deal Founder Gray Brechin will speak at the Mechanics’ Institute, San Francisco. Gray will be examining the New Deal’s impact on that city, which the Living New Deal has recently documented with our Guide to the Art... Read More

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