Back to the Land! Pennsylvania’s New Deal Era Communities
Posted by Joseph Conwill on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Back to the Land! Pennsylvania’s New Deal Era Communities The economic collapse of 1929 ushered in a decade fraught with deep, often tremulous, questioning of the nation’s development and future. Many were the cries to return to the land. As a result, two all-new rural communities founded in Pennsylvania in the mid-1930s – Norvelt, in Westmoreland County, and Penn-Craft, in adjacent Fayette County – remain today as testimony to...read more