Greta Gorsuch - The Bee Creek Blues & Meridian
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We are in Meridian, Texas, a real place, in the heart of ranchlands, hills, and wild country. Meridian is a small town with a diverse people who have come through hard times, and who work hard to preserve the community they love.
The Bee Creek Blues
It is 1934, in the middle of the Great Depression in America. There is no work, and times are hard. Adrian Cooper, a young African American college student from Ohio, has had to leave school because there is no money. He joins CCC Company 1827 to help build roads, dams, and parks. And he belongs to a rare integrated CCC company where African Americans work side by side with white Americans. CCC Company 1827 is sent to Meridian, Texas where it is hot, and the sun shines hard all day. The government wants them to build a dam, by hand, to bring water, and hope, to the ranchers and townspeople of Meridian. Not all goes smoothly. Some whites in Meridian dont like the idea of African Americans working on the dam. Will CCC Company 1827 build the dam? Will Adrian ever go back to school? Will good times ever return? Follow Adrian as he works alongside his friends and rebuilds his future.
Meridian
It is present day Meridian, Texas, and the Meridian Tribune, the tiny local newspaper, needs a new reporter. Young Mr. Bill Wells, fresh from the University of Texas, takes the job. Moving from the big city to a small town (Meridian: Population 4,445) brings some surprises, but Bill Wells reports on who he meets, and places he visits, and brings to life this small and diverse town. He battles alongside the townspeople to keep the local school open and encourages young people in town to learn photography. Written as a series of newspaper advertisements and stories, we follow young Mr. Wells as he begins to call Meridian his home.
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The day was hot. The sun was bright. There wasnt any place to get cool. And it was only eight oclock in the morning! Adrian Cooper looked at the shade under some short twisted trees with something like hope. He moved closer to the trees. At least he could look at them. He didnt know what they were called. They were not very tall. They were a sort of dark green. They were almost like pine trees, but they had dark blue berries under the branches. Adrian Cooper touched one. They were hard and dusty. These trees didnt look anything like the trees in Ohio. Ohio was where Adrian Cooper was from. Well, today, he was far from home.
Cooper! yelled Sergeant Hayes. Get over here!
Adrian sighed, and moved back into the strong, hot sunshine with the rest of the company. Tom Hart, Adrians best friend, grinned at him. Tom offered Adrian a cup of water. Adrian drank it in about two seconds.
The men, about thirty of them, stood in an open field somewhere in Bosque (bos-KEE) County, Texas. They all looked hot and tired. They were covered in brown dust. They were in trucks all night to get to this place. The trucks were open, with just some hard seats and boxes. There was no way to lie down.
Line up, and get some water, said Sergeant Hayes. The men lined up. Then Sergeant Hayes pointed down the hill. Theres a small creek down there. Its called Bee Creek. Bee Creek is the reason were here. Get down there. You can wash up. Be back here in thirty minutes!
Adrian didnt have to be told twice. He moved quickly with the men down to Bee Creek. The idea of cool water was wonderful. Getting all that dust off sounded great, too.
Bee Creek was small. There were lots of white rocks, and a few of the dark green trees with the blue berries on them. Then there was Bee Creek. Adrian could see only a thin ribbon of water. But the water was fast and cool. The men moved in a line along the creek bank to get to the water. Soon they were splashing each other. They got most of the dust off. One man, Riccardo Wilson, yelled, Snake! and the men went over to see. Just a few feet away was a brown, coiled snake. It was a rattlesnake. It rattled its tail, and backed up under some rocks. Riccardo Wilson picked up a large rock to kill it.
Adrian stopped him. No, he said. Let it be. This is his creek. Besides, if we have to live here, that snake will eat the mice. You kill the snakes, up come the mice for our food.
Riccardo Wilson said, Cooper, you think youre really something, dont you? You have all that school learning. Big college man from Ohio! You have ideas about everything. And now you want to save a rattlesnake? He made Ohio sound like ohhhhaaaaayooooo and ideas sound like ideeeeaaasss. He shook his head. But he put the rock down.
Adrian felt a tap on his arm. Tom Hart grinned and said, Aw, Riccardo just likes to talk big. Never mind him. Adrian laughed. It was true. Riccardo liked to talk and walk big. He was a big black man with a big chest and big hands. He talked like many African Americans from the southern U.S. Riccardos words were all pushed together. At least thats what Adrian thought. But with a name like Riccardo where did that come from? When Adrian Cooper asked Riccardo how he got his name, Riccardo just said, My mama loved the opera.
The opera? asked Adrian.
Yeah, the opera, said Riccardo. Got any more questions, college boy?
Sergeant Hayes yelled down the hill, Breakfast! Get up here. Anyone whos not up here in five minutes goes hungry! The men got up the hill. It was even hotter than before. Three more trucks were there. They were loaded with food, coils of rope, shovels, and small white tents. Oh no, thought Adrian Cooper. The shovels were not a good sign. They had long wooden handles, and a sharp half circle of steel at the end of each handle. The shovels meant they would be digging dirt. He could work as hard as anyone else. But he hated shovels, and he hated digging dirt out in the sun.
The thirty men, and Sergeant Hayes, were the members of the CCC Company 1827. The CCC stood for Civilian Conservation Corps. It was July 14, 1934. The United States was deep in the Great Depression. This meant that a lot of businesses closed. This meant that a lot of people didnt have jobs. This meant that a lot of people went hungry. This meant that a lot of people lost their homes. The CCC was started to make jobs for men who needed them.
The CCC was like the army. The U.S. Army ran the CCC but the CCC men like Adrian were not part of the U.S. Army. They were civilians, which was the civilian part of CCC. The word corps in the army meant a large group of men. That was the Corps part of the CCC. Each smaller group of men was called a company. Company was also an army word. You did work for the CCC, and they fed you, gave you a place to live, and they paid you.
The CCC men did work in parks. They built park buildings, roads, swimming pools, and dams. They planted trees. This was the Conservation part of CCC. Anything that made a park better was called conservation. The job of the CCC was to make parks great places to visit. They built small stone houses for park visitors to sleep in. Good roads were needed so park visitors could move around easily. And, dams were needed to collect water. Dams were built by hand at places with small rivers or creeks. Texas had few lakes, and there was not enough water in most parts of the state. Bee Creek, Bosque County, Texas, was a perfect place to build a dam. The dam would make a lake for fish. Visitors could go fishing. They could use the water for swimming. And the extra water could help the farmers in the area.
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