From New Deal to New Hard Times, Eleanor Endures (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By DAN BARRY
Published: December 24, 2009

Dozens of New Deal “resettlement” communities dotted the country: the Penderlea Homestead Farms in North Carolina; the Phoenix Homesteads in Arizona; the Dyess Colony in Arkansas, where Johnny Cash grew up. And here: on fertile West Virginia land beside the Kanawha River, a community named after Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the New Deal.

Over the years, these New Deal towns have been praised as a sound response to paralyzing poverty and criticized as flawed, communism-tinted social experiments. But in this hard time, as half-built subdivisions stand as ghostly testaments to economic failure, a place like Eleanor reflects a government action that worked, and works.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/us/25eleanor.html?scp=1&sq=eleanor,west%20virginia&st=cse