- Collection:
- Civilian Conservation Corps Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Interview with Tom Purvis
- Creator:
- Armstrong Oral History Class
- Publisher:
- National Park Service, Fort Pulaski National Monument
- Date of Original:
- 2000-07-15
- Subject:
- Georgia--History
Public welfare--Georgia
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.), Georgia--Fort Pulaski
Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.)
Historic sites--Conservation and restoration
Depressions--1929
Work Projects Administration (U.S.)
New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia
United States. National Youth Administration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, 31.97402, -81.09243
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Fort Pulaski National Monument, 32.03082, -80.93361 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- As in most of these interviews students asked about: hometown, family and life before CCC; joining the CCC; work, social life and training, education in CCC/at the Camp; military service in WWII; the New Deal/Roosevelt; later life’s work. Also, Details of daily life in camp, including food, illnesses, buildings and people.
Purvis in particular discusses: Coming home from camp on leave and cars, work was pushing wheelbarrow, discipline, the PX, pay, going to Savannah, jokes, pranks, games, rabbit hunting, shrimping, fishing, buildings on the Island, reunions, the fig tree, Talmadge, radio programs, Wilbur Johnson and Mr. Dickerson.
Historic Preservation and Conservation -- History -- Social Welfare -- CCC camp 460 -- discipline -- PX -- pay -- Savannah -- jokes -- pranks -- games -- rabbit hunting -- shrimping -- fishing -- fig tree -- Talmadge -- radio -- Mr. Dickerson -- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) -- Georgia--Fort Pulaski -- Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.) -- Historic sites--Conservation and restoration -- Depressions--1929 -- Nineteen thirties -- Work Projects Administration (U.S.) -- New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia -- United States. National Youth Administration -- University Partner Collections, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Oral History Interviews - Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ccc-pulaski-oral-histories/8
- Original Collection:
- National Park Service, Fort Pulaski National Monument
- Holding Institution:
- Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.)
- Rights:
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