CCC exhibit & symposium to open May 30th

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Grand Canyon National Park and the Grand Canyon Association are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the CCC with an exhibit and symposium beginning May 30. Grand Canyon National Park's first CCC Company, 819, arrived at the South Rim on May 29, 1933. The Civilian Conservation Corps, operating 1933-1942, was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's most popular, and successful, New Deal program. CCC boys constructed the Colorado River, Clear Creek and Ribbon Falls Trails, the BA Trail Resthouses and many other improvements to the park. The exhibit opens at Kolb Studio with formal ceremonies on the evening of May 30 and concludes on October 31. It is free (included in your $25.00 park entry fee) and open to all. A three day CCC Symposium opens on May 30 and will include history walks, presentations by scholars and a panel of former CCC enrollees.
Registration for the Symposium will begin on January 31 by going to the link on the park's website at: http://www.nps.gov/grca/historyculture/ccc.htm
Historic photos and artifacts will be displayed at the exhibit.