CCC Reunion : Remembering the men, who more than 70 years 
ago, built Texas state parks. That's coming up on Passport To Texas.


Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife. 


During a trip to the dentist, Joanna Glass spotted a back issue 
of Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine and saw something...a 
picture of herself as a teenager at Garner State Park.


"And this is one of my friends...and you can't see the pavilion there, 
we called it the concession..." 


But that wasn't the only surprise she discovered. She then found 
out that her father, David Rossington help build that concession, 
as a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps.


"I was in transportation...and all of those beams that were in that 
concession stand, I hauled them up there from Kinkaid Ranch in Uvlade." 


Rossington was just 18 years old when President Franklin Roosevelt 
established the C.C.C., the first New Deal recovery program, designed 
to put unemployed people to work. 


"You got $8.00 a month, and they sent $22.00 a month to your parents."


Today Parks and Wildlife manages 31 parks built by the CCC. And on 
September 16th and 17th these men and their families, as well as the 
general public, are invited to Garner State Park to share in their history 
and contributions... something Joanna Glass is personally forever thankful for.


"I have very fond memories. In fact that's the place where I first saw my 
husband."


To learn more about the CCC and the reunion at Garner State Park, 
come to passporttotexas.org. For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I'm Joel Block.