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The Lowdown
The Lowdown features articles on the people, projects and achievements of the Living New Deal itself.
- Living New Dealer of the Month: Ernest Everett BlevinsThe Living New Deal welcomes new National Associate Ernest Everett Blevins, MFA, to its research team. He is a structural historian working in Review & Compliance for the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office. Ernest has recorded and updated more than 80 LND sites in West Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina. He ...
- Save the Date: Women and the New Deal Conference Oct 5-6Please mark your calendars for October 5-6, 2018. We are organizing a conference on “Women and the New Deal” to be held on the UC Berkeley campus that weekend. The conference will look at the contribution of women to the New Deal and the mobilization of women today to work for ...
- Brechin to Speak at SFMOMAOn Thursday, April 26 at 6:00 pm, LND’s Gray Brechin will speak at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Together with Abad Ocubillo, a senior planner from the SF Planning Department, Gray will discuss what the landscape tells us about urban history, how planning initiatives reveal the city’s power ...
- Where in the World is Evan?Evan Kalish recently returned from New York, where the Living New Deal has catalogued more than 100 school buildings financed in part by the Public Works Administration. LND identified most of these buildings using PWA documents, newspaper articles, and other materials from the era. There are historical photos of more ...
- Living New Deal Welcomes National Associate, Eveline EvansThe Living New Deal recently added a new Texas National Associate to its team . Eveline Evans is a native of Nebraska but has lived in Central Texas for over 45 years. She became interested in the New Deal when she first stumbled upon a WPA mural in a post office. ...
- The Living New Deal Surpasses 15,000 Mapped Sites!The Living New Deal website has now surpassed 15,000 distinct, mapped sites across the United States and its territories. Several states and cities also recently hit milestones: New York State: 1,600 sites New York City: 800 sites Texas: 700 sites Pennsylvania: 500 sites New Jersey: 500 sites Ohio: 300 sites Maine: 250 sites Washington State: 250 sites West Virginia: 225 ...
- Emerson, NJ Fights to Save Borough Hall and MuralsThe Works Progress Administration built Emerson's Borough Hall in 1938-39. The Federal Art Project employed two artists, including Albert C. Haring and one unknown artist, to create murals in Borough Hall. The building has seven murals in its basement. Emerson is considering renovating, or outright replacing, Borough Hall. While the ...
- Where in the World is Evan?Evan Kalish recently traveled to New Mexico where he documented dozens of New Deal projects. Here is his summary - I love exploring New Mexico: the sunsets are beautiful, the spaces are wide-open, and the New Deal is everywhere. Melrose, N.M., population 650, has several stone WPA structures in town, ...
- Lawrence Restores New Deal RelicIn 1936, the town of Lawrence, on Long Island in New York, undertook a $825,000 project to build a high school. The town completed the project thanks to funds from the Public Works Administration. The town recently restored the building's cupola and clock tower. The structures had been in decline ...
- We've Passed A New Benchmark!The Living New Deal has now surpassed 14,000 mapped sites on its website (https://livingnewdeal.org/map/) and is rapidly approaching the 15,000 benchmark, with almost 14,500 sites mapped. We have also reached impressive milestones in a number of individual states: Massachusetts now has 800 sites, New Mexico has 300, Connecticut has 250, ...