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LND Awarded National Trust for Historic Preservation Grant
We are thrilled to announce that the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) has awarded the Living New Deal a $5,000 grant to support the development and dissemination of our Map/Guide to the Art and Architecture of the New Deal for Washington, D.C. This is the third map in our series of guides to New Deal sites, which included San Francisco and New York City. The NTHP grant will enable us to organize multiple events around the launch of the DC map. Although the publication and launch of this new map have been postponed due to the current crisis, we are grateful to have an impressive group of partners in D.C., including the NTHP, who are eager, as we are, to resume plans to launch the new map, when the time is right.
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Our Annual Spring Appeal: Adapting to Change
Our annual Spring fundraising appeal will be delayed and happen differently this year. We are upgrading the way we process and keep track of donations with the implementation of a donor management technology platform, Neon CRM. The new system will streamline donor acknowledgements and improve record-keeping efficiency. As people become more comfortable with electronic transactions, we hope more of our Living New Deal supporters will choose the online giving option. One unanticipated impact of the COVID-19 crisis is the suspension of mail delivery on the UC Berkeley campus, which may delay our acknowledgment of your gift. We thank you in advance for your ongoing support during this challenging time.
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Patriots’ Day and Revolutionary Cambridge
Patriots’ Day is a cherished holiday in Massachusetts. It commemorates the American Revolution and the central role that the state, and Cambridge, played in the fight for independence. In observance of Patriots’ Day, our National Associate, Fern Nesson, published another essay in her Travels with the American Guide Series, this time about Cambridge and the Revolution. Reflecting on these historic events, Fern refers to the American Guide Series of the Federal Writers’ Project. The WPA writers described the significance of hallowed historic sites in Cambridge. Fern’s essay seeks to bring these events and places to life, especially since this year the residents of Massachusetts were not able to mark the date with the traditional commemorative events—Paul Revere's ride, the reenactment of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and the famed (though unrelated) Boston Marathon. Read more about George Washington’s time in Cambridge and the Revolution in Fern’s new essay, "Cambridge, Massachusetts During the American Revolution."
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WPA-built Woodlawn Park in Ligonier, IN
According to Glory-June Greiff, our Indiana National Associate, “nearly half of Indiana’s state parks, and all but two of its state forests were developed or improved by New Deal agencies.” Reporting from Ligonier, Indiana, where she gave a lecture a few months ago, Glory-June recounts her impressions and describes some of the New Deal sites she discovered in this small town, once a thriving manufacturing community. In 1935, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created Woodlawn Park in Ligonier. The following year, it built multiple facilities—a stone shelter house, a large fieldstone flower bed that appears to have served as a fountain, a stone basin, and multiple stone platforms. Some of these structures are still standing today. Recreational facilities were a common type of project undertaken by the WPA. As Glory-June writes, WPA administrators found them especially well suited for creating employment opportunities where they were urgently needed, while also delivering public value for local residents. Read more about Glory-June’s site visit here.
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