Do you have a family member, friend, or neighbor who lived in or around Chestertown in the 1940s and who likes to tell stories about the old days?
The Starr Center’s StoryQuest program is conducting interviews this summer with people who remember this area during World War II. Our team of student researchers will be chronicling the wartime experience in this community through the stories of those who experienced it. Potential interviewees might be veterans, family members of veterans, or simply people who lived in this area and remember things like blackouts, bond drives, munitions factories, and German POWs as farm workers. We are looking for memories of how the wartime experience involved men, women, and children from all backgrounds and walks of life, whether in uniform or as civilians.
If you know of someone whom you think we should contact as a potential interviewee — especially if you know they enjoy telling stories! — please do send your suggestions.
Please note that this year’s StoryQuest effort, the Dr. Davy H. McColl World War II History Project, is specifically seeking interviewees who lived in Chestertown and surrounding areas of Kent and Queen Anne’s Counties in the 1930s and 1940s. Our students will also be making digital scans of wartime letters, photos, and other documents.
This summer marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, and with each passing year, more stories and memories of that era are lost forever. Thanks for helping our students to save a few of them, a task with particular resonance as we approach Memorial Day.
Please contact [email protected] for more information.
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