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Logs and Mortar of the New Deal

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

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Annette Laing
Sep 26, 2021
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Wood dining hall
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 …

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