A New Deal Subsistence Homestead
by
Sandra Wolk Schimizzi, Valeria Sofranko Wolk
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
In 1933, the town of Norvelt became the fourth of 99 planned subsistence homestead communities subsidized by the federal government as part of the National Industrial Recovery Act for dislocated miners and industrial workers. The American Field Service Committee was recruited to implement and build the...