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Migrant family from Missouri on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, Calif., 1937. (Dorothea Lange, U.S. Farm Security Administration) Remember the migrant labor camp in Thornton, California? Gail Erwin posted an entry about it last week on the Museum's blog. That camp is only one of many reminders that the U.S. government sponsored an array of projects—only . . . → Read More: The Living New Deal One of the best books I’ve read in recent months is the Gothic Enterprise, by Robert A. Scott (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). The Gothic Enterprise views Europe’s great cathedrals of the High Middle Ages as windows into the Medieval mind, as embodiments of the human spirit that reveal more about society, economics, politics, . . . → Read More: New Deal Cathedrals  Leave a comment  Archives and Library  California politics, Gothic Enterprise, Historical research, Hutchins Street Square, Living New Deal, Local history, Lodi, Lodi Grape Bowl, Lodi National Guard Armory, Micke Grove, Port of Stockton, San Joaquin County, Stockton Federal Building, Stockton Post Office, Thornton Migrant Farm Shelters, U.S. Post Office |
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