Kentucky's Civilian Conservation Corps

By the time Franklin D. Roosevelt took his first oath of office, the Great Depression had virtually gutted the nation�s agricultural heartland. In Kentucky, nearly one out of every four men was unemployed and relegated to a life of poverty, and as quickly as the economy deflated, so too did morality. �The overwhelming majority of unemployed Americans, who are now walking the streets�would infinitely prefer to work,� FDR stated in his 1933 appeal to Congress. So began the New Deal and, with it, a