In 1940, the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened between Irwin, PA (in Westmoreland County outside Pittsburgh) and Carlisle, PA in south-central Pennsylvania. (Extensions to the Ohio border
C. D. Thomson (“Dick”) was a soldier in northern France or Belgium; he makes mention of “D-day down south”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauts-de-France Sometime after that invasion, Dick
The norms and expectations for photographic portraits changed enormously between World War I and World War II. Whereas studio portraits of the early 20th century
Don McNeil was born in Illinois, but grew up in Wisconsin (he was a first cousin to Casper Weinberger, with whom I would not have
Tellings stories from the past.