I Shawn

<p>The novella I Shawn follows the path a young man gripped by the economic depression experienced during 1938 combined with the catastrophe caused by a hurricane that devastated areas in New York in 1938. This young man became head of a family of eight children when his father got wounded in the midst of the hurricane. To assist our nation’s climb out of the economic depression President Roosevelt instituted a work program for young unemployed men who not only earned money but obtained training that would help them after they were members of the Civilian Conservation Corps for two years. It is not a biography but rather a fictional story.</p>