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At the camp Mrs. Swindler found a local market for produce, milk and eggs. Local corpsmen don’t recall eating a lot of apples, hut it would be safe to assume that they were a staple throughout the Blue Ridge at the mess tables of the CCC. Mess sergeants and supply officers were dispensers of cash, however modest, for the local merchants who found that fewer and lower customers were able to pay with money and the local exchange, always heavily dependent on barter, became even more so. “Real” money from the CCC was most welcome.
Rural Relief
There were many reasons why rural Virginians were among the most active participants in the CCC programs in the entire nation. The wages paid were more appealing to people in counties like Rappahannock, Bath, Alleghany and Hallifax than to blue and w hite collar workers in the northern cities. Nor were Rappahannock workers either newly poor or reluctant to work. Little affected by the stock market crash, local corpsmen were often from families that had endured poverty and hard times all through the ’twenties while the rest of the nation was booming.
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