Figure 1.--This Picardy farm family has pieced toether a home from the rubble. We are not sure what the otriginal building was. Botice the stove pipe. At least the fatherr surviuved the War.

Bringing Picardy back to life was a huge undertakinhg. The damage in the towns and villsges ws massive. But the damage in the coyntry side was also huge, including the farms. And a major part of that was getting the farms up an running again. From the outset, Morgan and her teamn worked with the French people and French institutions to get the refugees back to being productive people. Picardy was essentially a wasteland. The area was leveled and not just buildings. The trees were oliterated. The land had unexploded ordinance and the chermical weapons had damnaged the soil. There was no runing water. They organized seed plnting and also planted 6,000 fruit trees. Landscape architect Mary Rutherfurd Jay joined Morgan's Committee. She managed an agricultural unit of women who trained wounded soldiers to raise crops by seed. About 800 families were rehoused. The Committee began destributing farm implements beginning with hand tools like hows and sythes. After 4 years of war,the population that remained and the returning refugees had nothing. The population had virtually nothing. Clinics, kindergardens and orphanages were set opened. They work with the Farmer's Union to set up cooperatives that set up workshops to repair machinery and acquire livestock.

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