default

At the Peoples State Forest, young men built up the roads, trails and campgrounds, as well as fought fires. They also built a nature museum.

Connecticut

CT | Weather

weathernoon1129_2023-11-29-12-24-17

All right. Let's take a look outside through our community camera in Norwalk Storm Watch team. Meteorologist, Jonathan Cubit. He joins us. Now he's at Orchard Hills Elementary in Milford. Hey, Becky and the kids, they got another reminder for us. They tell us not to forget our. That's right. The coldest weather we've seen so far this season, we've gotten through the worst of it earlier on this morning. But as we progress getting into tonight, one more cold shot, now, temperatures do rebound as we head into your tomorrow as well as your Friday. Unfortunately, we have to wash for showers as we push forward into your Friday night. But after we get through today into your tomorrow again, better weather temperatures starting off in the thirties. We're not going to deal with that biting and chill for your tomorrow morning while you still want to bundle up. We do better heading into your afternoon that high pressures are gonna take over, remain in control. So we're gonna continue with this dry quiet weather. You're just gonna need to grab the coat. So I know it's feeling a little bit more like midwinter for today, but we're back to more seasonal numbers even heading into your Friday. Now, first half of your Friday looks good. We're staying dry. We're actually stepping out the door into some 40 degree weather kind of where we should be for this time of year. But as we head into your afternoon, right around that lunch period, clouds start to fill in and then we're watching for some showers. We'll catch a little bit of a break for that commute home around 45 o'clock for your Friday afternoon. Getting into your Friday evening before we see another round of your showers late Friday evening into your Friday night. So, yeah, maybe date night, maybe dinner night, maybe heading out to the movies. You're definitely gonna wanna grab the umbrella or something with the hood that what weather moves in that week front is gonna produce some showers into your late Friday night before we dry out. Nicely. Heading into the weekend. First half looks good for your Saturday. Still working with some 50 degree weather. I like Saturday a little more than Sunday because it looks like we could see a few more showers in the mix to wrap up the week and looks like an unsettled pattern heading into the first half of next week.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/7ebae9c3-25a8-43ec-ae12-cc588246d0a0/7ebae9c3-25a8-43ec-ae12-cc588246d0a0.transcribe

Weather

CTForestRoadTrip525_2023-05-25-05-44-00

Take a historical hike at Barkhamstead’s Peoples State Forest

It has been 90 years since President Franklin Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps where thousands of young men helped to manage forests and develop state national and historic parks in this week's road trip. Close to home news, 12 photojournalist, Laurie Goli teams up with art author Marty Pasco to explore the work of the C CCS in Bars. People State Forest covers approximately 3000 acres. It was incorporated in 1924. Hi. My name is Martin Pod Scotch and I have written the book. The title of my book is the Connecticut Civilian Conservation court camps. My book contains the 21 civilian conservation court camps throughout uh Connecticut at the People State Forest. The young men built up the roads, uh hiking trails, they fought fires, they built up uh campgrounds. They also built the Nature Museum. The nature museum is a museum of natural History, history of the local forest for people to come up and get an idea of what animals, plants and history were located within People State Forest. This building was built in approximately 1934 by the civilian Conservation Corps. We have a diorama here that shows camp white and what camp white looked like. This is the actual layout of the camp itself. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a big help getting out of the Depression. It was a tremendous program that was put in to give the young men and young families an opportunity to have a lifestyle. Again when work was scarce, this museum, you're welcome to touch. You're welcome to explore. People should come to visit People's State Forest to learn a little bit about what the forest has to offer. If you look around where we are right now, it gives you an idea of what this area looks like before we put the trail in. We have a lot of different bird species that you only find in the wetland area. We are in Squire's Tavern, which is the headquarters for the Barkhamsted Historical Society. It's actually part of People's Forest. This is kind of an old house museum and we have displays in a lot of the rooms. But in the 1930 S People's Forest had a ranger based here and that's a big part of the history of the building. The C C C Boys did a tremendous amount of work in people's forests, developing the area around this house. I have a passion for the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The legacy is incredible. I mean, it, it's part of our history that you really don't pick up and just in every day's books, you need to find somebody like Marty who's bringing back to life for us. If you're coming to people's forests as a beautiful spot, you can stop by the Squire's Tavern. You can get a sense for the history of the town and the history of this building and the history of people's forests. You forget about those programs during the depression that really gave people an opportunity to do something when there was no work and something that's lasted so long and brought joy to so many people. So the conservation continues. The wetlands boardwalk was just recently installed by members of the friends of American Legion and People's state Force for about nine months.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/74a9e014-916c-4fc7-bc53-4a7d47f9a857/74a9e014-916c-4fc7-bc53-4a7d47f9a857.transcribe

Please select a region to stay informed on the latest local news via news12.com