NEW·YORK
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across New York. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
New York had one of the largest CCC programs in the country. Enrollees worked extensively in Adirondack Park (trails, lean-tos, ranger cabins), built much of the Catskill Park infrastructure, shaped Bear Mountain State Park, Allegany State Park, Letchworth, and Robert H. Treman. CCC crews fought forest fires across the Adirondacks, planted hundreds of millions of trees across burned and cut-over New York forests, and built fire lookouts that operated into the 1980s. Much of what hikers see in the Adirondacks today started under CCC hands.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
New York remembers what was built by people willing to do it.
A COLLECTIVE OF BUILDERS.
The CCC Boys corps is based in Colleton County, South Carolina. Justin and Jeremy Shearer and their cousin Joe Nettles, grandsons of Joseph Connelly, are building it from home. We do hurricane prep along the coast, shingle recycling out of the Columbia metro, marine apprenticeships in Walterboro, and a software portfolio with AI as the partner. The corps is worker-owned: members draw a steady wage first, then operating costs, then runway, then surplus to the people who made it happen. Not shareholders.
South Carolina is the first chapter. Other states are next, as builders in those places raise their hands. The playbook, curriculum, kit specs, and operating model are all open source under Creative Commons. Anyone can use them. Federated branches share the central infrastructure (a stablecoin-native neobank, a shared apprentice curriculum, a brand built by everyone) but operate locally. No fees. No buy-in. You are a branch, not a franchise.
A CCC BOYS NEW YORK BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As New York-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to New York, write us.
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