The games at Hooverville largely went chalk early, but yesterday threw that all in the blender, starting with the day one game that was kicked to early day two because of weather, where aTm ...

Later on today—currently scheduled for 4:30pm CT, but you know how Hooverville goes during the rainy season—I’ll update this post to make it a second round game thread for Ugga vs. The OK ...

As the Great Depression worsened in the 1930s, thousands of Americans lost their jobs and eventually their homes. Shantytowns dubbed “Hoovervilles” named after unsympathetic President Herbert ...

A Hooverville has a measure of independence: you can build what is possible for you to build and improvise as possible. I don’t mean to romanticize the reality of living in a tent in the woods.

Amherst Historical Society will host the Experiencing 1930s “Hooverville” event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 7 at Sandstone Village, 736 Milan Ave. in Amherst. Focused on life in the 1930s ...

Every fall thousands of people venture to El Dorado County to partake in the scenery, visit orchards, enjoy great fruit pies and other delectable goodies and peruse various arts and crafts.

Hoovervilles sat on the edges of towns, often near rivers or other water sources. In 1937, around 20 men lived in this shantytown in Paterson, New Jersey. Lewis Hine/National Archives. 17 of 34. ...

Hoovervilles sprouted up across the US during the Great Depression. One in Central Park was also called "Hoover Valley" or "Forgotten Men's Gulch." ...

During the Great Depression, shanty towns, also known as "Hoovervilles," began to sprout up across the US. Named after President Herbert Hoover, they were made up of scraps of wood, tin, tar, and ...

One man told a New York Times reporter in 1931: "We work hard to keep it clean, because that is important. I never lived like this before." The Hooverville in Central Park was not the largest, or ...