© Michael I. Smith, 2014
BACKGROUND
This is the first post at Forest Army for 2014 and it seems
that perhaps it is time to undertake some administrative housekeeping. Frequent visitors here will know that I
maintain a separate – more active – Civilian Conservation Corps blog at the Civilian Conservation Corps Resource
Page. Eventually, I may phase out
posts here at Forest Army and hopefully migrate content that is currently here,
over to the CCC Resource Page but in the meantime, visitors can jump between
the two blogs by clicking the image under the phrase “Please visit my other CCC
blog” which appears along the left hand side of the blog page here. I hope that visitors will find ample reason
to jump between the two in search of new, interesting CCC material but my hope
is that you won’t find the jumping between blogs to be too bothersome.
BUYER BEWARE!
Recently, while doing a Google search for material related
to the Civilian Conservation Corps, an image from this blog appeared with the
related Google images. Problem was, when
I checked the source of the image, the link took me to a different blog with a
very similar name. More shocking still,
that blog is an exact copy of the Forest Army blog you are viewing here, except
the posts are listed as having been posted by a “Walters Louann”. Fortunately, the copyright line I put at the
end of my articles does appear on the mirror site but it’s disconcerting to see
your work posted verbatim on another blog.
I sent an email to the Google Blogger folks but, perhaps not
surprisingly, there was no response. I
suspect the site that is mirroring my blog is coming from overseas; perhaps
Asia.
I’m not relaying this bit of information because I think you
should go over and view the blog that is basically an exact copy of my Forest
Army blog, not even out of basic curiosity.
On the contrary, I think you should avoid going to that blog because I
don’t have any idea what sort of spam or malware might be attached to the links
they are using. Going forward, you will
likely see my copyright information more prominently posted here at Forest Army
and at the CCC Resource Page. I research
and write about the CCC in order to share information and I’m pleased when
visitors comment that my site is helpful or interesting and I generally agree
to any requests to use information or link to my page, but obviously, finding a
pirate blog that purports to be Forest Army is frustrating and I will do what I
can to make certain that my own research and writing is recognized, for better
or worse.
DROP ME A NOTE
Please enter a comment or question if you have one either here
or at the CCC Resource Page. Feedback,
any feedback, is often the spark that motivates people to continue researching and
writing and the effort becomes somewhat meaningless if the worker never hears
back from the folks using the product of his or her labor.
© Michael I. Smith, 2014
6 comments:
Michael, I've recently been researching CCC history in Rhode Island and found your blog. Local libraries and archives have provided some good information, but it's only a small fraction of what I hope to find. Would you know of any information about RI camps?
Hi Gary! I'm grateful that you visited the Forest Army blog. I'm working on a state by state account of CCC work over at the CCC Resource Blog but unfortunately, I'm just now working on Maine, so Rhode Island is somewhere in the future.
I have some information on Rhode Island; mostly statistics from the 1937, 1939 and 1942 FY Annual Reports. I would be happy to scan the Rhode Island pages and email them to you if you'll leave another "comment" and provide your email address. I won't publish that comment, so your email address won't go out to the masses. I can also pull any Rhode Island CCC fatalities that may have been reported in Happy Days. Your other option would be to watch the CCC Resource Page blog for the Rhode Island state by state article, but I think it may be some time before I get that far. Drop me a note and I'll send you whatever I have!
Hi, Michael -
My late-father served with the C.C.C. in Claremont, NH on a dam-building project. That's about all I know, and I'm trying to find out more about that. I've downloaded the form to acquire his record, which I'll be submitting later this week. In the meantime, if you have any information in your archives about the C.C.C. in the Claremont, NH area, I would be most appreciative.
On a somewhat related matter, I have just composed a song entitled "The Boys Of The C.C.C.", and I'll be debuting it in a fundraising event for the CT CCC Worker Statue fund. The fundraiser will be held at the VFW Hall in Norwich, CT on June 1st.
I would be glad to send you an MP3 of it, if you would provide an E-Mail address that will accept such a file.
Hi TCinCT! I'll have to look through my stuff for anything on NH camps. Eventually I will do a New Hampshire entry for the State-By-State series but I'm working on Maine at the moment.
I'd definitely like to hear your CCC melody. I don't post my email here on the blogs - something I've considered but decided against. If you'll leave me a comment with your email address I'll drop you an email and I won't publish the comment that contains your email.
Hello Mr. Smith,
Would it be possible to use the Fort Knox Conditioning camp photo for an educational video for McLennan Community College? If you do not have rights to the photo, do you know where the photo originally came from?
Thank you,
Michaela McCown
Hi Michaela, leave another comment with your contact information (I won't publish it) so that I can contact you directly. The Ft. Knox photo is part of my collection but I need to pull it from storage in order to see where I originally obtained it so that I can provide some background.
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