Monday, March 1, 2010

WPA histories in Morrison County

The Morrison County Historical Society has a wonderful website and blog, and one of the pages there has a link to their list of WPA family biographies: 
"During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government initiated a number of programs to put people to work. One of the best-known was the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As part of the WPA, several residents of Morrison County, Minnesota, found work through a project to collect oral histories from long-time residents".
Those oral histories were interviews with old-timers, including residents of Buckman and Pierz.  Check it out.  If you find a bio you need, you'll have to plan a trip to the Weyerhauser Museum in Little Falls, but it's WELL worth it, trust me! 

No comments:

Post a Comment