Mooresville veterans nonprofit compiling soldiers’ oral history

On Memorial Day, John Hedley’s father always flew an American flag, took the family to a patriotic parade in downtown Rochester, N.Y., and urged them to remember veterans.

Narrating our pasts: The social construction of oral history

Tonkin treats a complex and timely set of ideas when she studies the relationships between oracy and literacy, oral narrative performance and written texts, memory and history and society. To discuss these areas of scholarly debate, she employs a multidisciplinary, sometimes contentious variety of studies and assertions. Her efforts mostly succeed in promoting her claims for the necessity of blurring past distinctions and categories in the study of oral history, and for taking a much more performative/interactive view of its construction in a living context.

Library Launches Portal For Civil Rights History Project

Simeon Wright still recalls the terror of the night they came and took his cousin away. “I woke up and saw these two white men standing at the foot of my bed,” Wright said. “One had a gun, flashlight.

Eastern York alum shares war stories from WWII

Ronald Marcello was five years old when World War II soldiers starting returning home from the war, "strutting" around the Wrightsville area in their uniforms. As he grew up, three of his Boy Scout leaders spent hours around their cabin's fire, sharing war stories with each other and, by extension, Marcello.

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