In this class of words and images, Michael Lorence will be joined by Ed Pease and David Stemann, the architects who recently restored all the Civilian Conservation Corps cabins in Virginia. In 1890, the American frontier was declared closed. A consumer revolution exploded out of that vacuum only to collapse into the depths of the Great Depression. In response, the CCC was formed to bring hundreds of thousands of white, black, and Native American men and women back into healing contact with the land, restoring a suffering nation with a vision of a simpler past and wiser future.