Stories gathered from the men who benefited from a great depression era work program as teenagers and young adults will be shared in Southeast Iowa this week. Bill Jamerson is stopping in Washington, Kalona and rural Henry County to give people an idea of what life was like for the 3.5 million poverty stricken men who signed up for the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930’s, whose work can still be seen today. Jamerson says the 56,000 CCC boys living in camps scattered across Iowa built parks, dug ponds and planted trees.

You can attend Jamerson’s Dollar-A-Day Boys: A Musical Tribute to the Civilian Conservation Corps today at 6:30 p.m. at the Kalona Library, tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Washington Library and at 6:30 p.m. at the Oakland Mills Nature Center located outside of Mount Pleasant.

To learn more, listen to our conversation with Jamerson during today’s In Touch with Southeast Iowa.