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Some additional information related to the above. When I worked for MCC, the main headquarters of MCC were in the Twin Cities, as part of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. While the summer base camp was in St. Croix State Park near Hinckley, Minnesota, there were also many crews that periodically went to other State Parks in Minnesota, as spike crews, made up of all kinds of people, for sure.
I went on such crews three times during my time with MCC during the summer of 1991. First I spiked with several others to William O'Brien State Park near Stillwater or Marine-on-St. Croix, if memory serves. We mainly made picnic tables and cleared brush and did other work there. The second time I was on a spike crew to another park, we spiked to Interstate State Park, which is near Chisago City and Taylors Falls, I believe, and we built sixty steps on the Curtain Falls Trail, which is probably renamed by now, among other things we did there. And the third spike was to Father Hennepin State Park, which is quite near Isle, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Mille Lacs, if I remember correctly, where we mainly painted picnic shelters and did a few other things before returning to base camp just prior to the end of summer camp.
It was an interesting summer, to be sure, and a summer that I've not totally forgotten, plus I am still in contact with at least a couple of people from that year with MCC. Even roughly 27 years later, in fact.
Being a Corpsmember for MCC is an experience that I will likely never totally forget, no matter how long I happen to live. It was hard work, to be sure, often, to do a lot of the things we did in various parks, even if I wasn't able to spike out as much as I might have liked, or go to certain areas of Minnesota as a member of certain spike crews, but I had a real fun time, and all.
That's enough additional information to talk about here for now, I think, folks. CD out.
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