The Jack Tales by Richard Chase7/5/2023 Camp Albemarle in White Hall, he remained at work in that place for six years. By 1936, he was gratified to find regular work in President Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps. The depression-era job market that he entered, however, offered few opportunities for inexperienced young men like himself. Nevertheless, he persevered to attain a civil engineering degree from Virginia Military Institute. Bailey, born in 1909, had grown up among the traditions of the Potomac and Chesapeake watermen from the village of Kinsale in Westmoreland County. “I must warn you that you are leaning on an old worn-out horse when you rely on my stories,” wrote Joseph Harvey Bailey in the summer of 2002. He visited and documented the mountain folk, formed the Park’s early commercial guidebooks, and authored what many consider to be its definitive history, The Undying Past of Shenandoah National Park. Lambert was Shenandoah’s first hire in 1936. By Phil James Sally James and Darwin Lambert compare notes on the Shenandoah National Park removals of the 1920s and ‘30s.
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