Cameron County

The city of Johnstown now holds a festival every August called Squonkapalooza.

A good deal of the state's planting in the 1930s was done by the Civilian Conservation Corps, and that's how a 19-year-old from Philadelphia named Stanley ended up in a camp in Cameron County in the spring of 1934.

He'd never been out of the city.

The corps put 200 young men in a camp of barracks on a creek bottom, issued them work clothes, and sent them out every morning in trucks to plant seedlings, cut fire trails, and build roads on mountains that had been logged bare 30 years earlier.