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  • Building a civilization: We need a new deal
    • May 1, 2008
    • Richard A Walker
    The flowering of public construction and employment during the New Deal that many people believe saved America during the Great Depression offers lessons for today far beyond architecture, says Gray Brechin, who has launched a treasure hunt to locate and share the riches of the New ...
  • Veterans of 75-year-old Civilian Conservation Corps honored at Mountain Theater
    • April 12, 2008
    • Richard A Walker
    THREE MEMBERS of the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps were honored Saturday at the Mountain Theater on Mount Tamalpais, the stone amphitheater the corps built in the 1930s. "We've outlived all the rest of them," said 88-year-old Arnold Blumhardt, who joined the corps when he was a 17-year-old North ...
  • New Deal treasures
    • February 20, 2008
    • Richard A Walker
    Berkeley geographer to discuss Depression-era structures built in Sonoma County. ...
  • New life for the New Deal
    • January 16, 2008
    • Richard A Walker
    Revered, reviled, and largely forgotten, the public-works legacy of the FDR era is all around us - and the Living New Deal Project is drawing the map. ...
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