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This year will be the 73rd reunion held since camps were first established at Skyland (NP-1) and Big Meadows (NP-2) in May 1933.
The highlight of this year’s Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Reunion will be the dedication of a bronze CCC Worker statue at Byrd Visitor Center plaza, Big Meadows (milepost 51). The ceremony will begin at 2 p. m. on Saturday, September 30th.
The National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni (NACCCA) kicked off a campaign in the early 1990s to commission a bronze statue;of a CCC worker from Elliot Ganz Foundry. The goal of NACCCA is to have a copy of the st&tile erected in eveiy state to commemorate the work of the Corps throughout the United States from 1933-1942.
The original statue was installed in North Higgins State Park, Roscommon, MI in 1995. Shenandoah National Park’s bronze will be the 32nd state commemoration.
The life-size bronze statpe is loosely based on the depressionera drawing of “Iron Mikep, a representative, although highly idealized young man. Shirtless, dressed in denim field pants and floppy hat, the enrollee proudly stands with axe at rest.
The statue has been made possible by a gift from the Barlow family . of Stanley, Virginia and is in memory of Russell Thompson Barlow and Louise Painter Barlow. Mr. Barlow was a CCC enrollee at camp NP-2 (Big Meadows) from 1934-1936. Mrs. Barlow was one of three Stanley sisters that married CCC enrollees from the Big Meadows camp. A bronze plaque adjacent to the statue reads:
Between 1933 and 1942 more than 10,000 young men served in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Shenandoah National Park.
These “boys” created the form and fabric of the new park so that future generations could find recreation and re-creation here.
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