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A 1941 poster advertising the “Paul Bunyan Winter Carnival — Ice Follies,” lists skating, hockey and the special feature of Wilton’s "Little Switzerland.” The poster also advertised skiing, tobogganing and sleighing, with plenty of parking space, a warming house and a ski tow.
SUMMARY The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was the most popular of United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, even winning the endorsement of Virginia’s conservative U.S. senator Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (While Byrd was a fellow Democrat, he advocated a small federal government that did not spend ahead of means or interfere in state affairs.) Designed to alleviate the widespread unemployment caused by the Great Depression, the CCC recruited unmarried, unemployed young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five to spend six months in camps doing conservatio...