The Peter White Public Library will host author Bill Jamerson of Escanaba, who will give a talk on his new book, BIG SHOULDERS, on Sunday, November 4 from 3 to 4 p.m. in the library's Community Room. The historical novel follows a year in the life of a seventeen-year-old youth from Hamtramck who enlists in the CCC in 1937. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal work program created by President Franklin Roosevelt in the heart of The Great Depression. During its ten year run from 1933-1942, over eighty camps in Michigan housed nearly 90,000 young men between the ages of 17 and 21 years of age. They planted millions of trees, fought forest fires, built state parks and county roads. Bill Jamerson is an award-winning PBS filmmaker who wrote and produced eleven films during the 1990's. In 1993 he produced Camp Forgotten-The CCC in Michigan, which aired on over sixty stations nationwide and received the Award of Merit from the Historical Society of Michigan. In 2000, Bill wrote a dozen original songs about the CCC, which he performs at schools, libraries and CCC reunions. In his talk, Bill will also show a short clip from his film and perform a few songs. The event is free to the public.
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