Rediscovering dad in his New Deal letters
Photo credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara | Anthony DiFranco, wearing his father’s CCC cap, with a photo of his dad, Theodore, from the ’30s. (Jan. 17, 2013)
The stack of vintage letters written by his father changed everything Anthony DiFranco of Northport thought he knew about the Depression-era world of his parents before they married.
The letters, composed in the mid-1930s when his dad was a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps, revealed a side of his father DiFranco had never known and launched what he calls "an expedition into the past."
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