Logs and Mortar of the New Deal

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD: In a Hotel Built By Desperately Poor Lads a Lifetime Ago

The Dining Room, Starved Rock Lodge and Conference Center, built in the depths of the Great Depression by the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Image: Annette Laing, 2021

Poor Hoosen. He never even gets to take a little holiday without his wife popping on her historical x-ray specs and providing a running narration.

Yes, Hoosen and I succumbe…