The Minisink Valley Historical Society is pleased to announce the release of four new works on an important era in our nation's history. During the last seven years the Society's director Peter Osborne has been researching and writing about the efforts of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He has written four books including two about New Jersey's High Point State Park in Sussex, New Jersey. The first book is entitled "We Can Take It: The Roosevelt Tree Army at High Point State Park 1933-1941" and the second is called "Images of America: High Point State Park and The Civilian Conservation Corps." The former is a definitive history of the CCC at High Point and includes interviews with the former enrollees, excerpts from contemporary newsletters and a listing of the men who served there. It is the result of two years of meticulous research by the author. The second book is a collection of photographs from private and public collections of the work the CCC did at High Point almost all of which has never been seen before. Combined, both books provide the most complete history of the park ever written. In addition, he has written about two other parks that were developed by the CCC including Promised Land State Park in Greentown, Pennsylvania and Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks in central New Jersey.

The CCC was created by one of the last century's leading figures, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It is the story of one of the most effective and important efforts ever undertaken by our nation to combine relief efforts, as welfare was then known, with major conservation projects in our parks and forests in the 1930s and early 1940s. It is also the story of three million young men who served in the Roosevelt Tree Army, as it was known. Their motto was "We Can Take It!" because of the hard work they undertook.

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IMAGES OF AMERICA: Promised Land State Park by Peter Osborne. This photographic history of Promised Land State Park in Greentown, Pennsylvania is the first of its kind. It contains an important collection of photographs many of which come from the park's archives. The author has generously donated the royalties from the sales of the book to the Society. MVHS1577 - $19.99

$19.99

IMAGES OF AMERICA: Hacklebarney & Voorhees State Parks, New Jersey by Peter Osborne. This photographic history of Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks and the CCC in central New Jersey is the first of its kind. It contains an important collection of photographs many of which come from the two park's archives. The author has generously donated the royalties from the sales of the book to the Society. MVHS157 - $19.99

$19.99

IMAGES OF AMERICA: HIGH POINT STATE PARK & THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS by Peter Osborne. This photographic history of High Point State Park and the CCC, just a short distance from the city of Port Jervis, New York is the first of its kind. It contains an important collection of photographs many of which from the park's archives. The author has generously donated the royalties from the sales of the book to the Society. MVHS148 - $19.99

$19.99

WE CAN TAKE IT: THE ROOSEVELT TREE ARMY AT HIGH POINT STATE PARK 1933-1941 by Peter Osborne. This extensive history written about the Civilian Conservation Corps and their efforts at High Point State Park is required reading for those who have an interest in the greatest conservation movement of the 20th century. The author has generously donated the royalties from the sales of the book to the Society. MVHS144 - $19.99

$19.99