carson announced his resignation from his unpaid job effective in december 1934. as one of his final acts, carson wrote the new nps director, arno b. cammerer, urging that 60 people over 60 years of age whose plots were not visible from the new skyline drive not be evicted. when evictions kept creating negative publicity in 1935, photographer arthur rothstein coordinated with the "hollow folk" authors and then went to document the conditions they claimed.