Above: "Sawing Wood in Winter," an oil painting by Hugh Hegh (1909-2000), created in 1935. The image is from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), and SAAM includes "New Deal--Civilian Conservation Corps--Maine" in the painting's description. But it's unclear whether Hegh himself was in the CCC when he painted this. He would have been 26 in 1935, a little higher than the usual age for CCC enrollees, and too young to be a World War I veteran enrollee in the CCC. But he definitely had some type of relationship with the Corps and the National Park Service (NPS) (see another of his paintings on the website of the NPS - "Jordan Pond and Bubbles in the Fall").
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