Visiting Arthurdale, West Virginia
The first resettlement community of the New Deal celebrates its roots
Last week I had the good fortune to be passing through West Virginia near the Arthurdale community on the day of its annual New Deal Festival. What a treat to visit Eleanor Roosevelt’s “little village,” the first of 100 resettlement communities planted across America in the 1930s to give desperately poor people a chance at a better life.
In 1933, the ye…
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