Inside the Library

...Beginning with the WWII Veterans, oral history interviews will be conducted and preserved by the Warren County Memorial Library, and copies of interviews and other items will be shared with the NC Division of Historical Resources, Special Collections Branch.

LTC (Ret.) Sion H. Harrington, III, Military Collection archivist, has provided the Veteran Interview Question Guide and Release Form, which each participant will be asked to sign.

The Library is also seeking photographs of veterans interviewed, in uniform, as well as military and personal papers relating to their time in the service. Personal papers would include letters, postcards, diaries and reminiscences.

Personal papers would include letters, postcards, diaries and reminiscences. Military papers would include discharges, copies of orders, certificates, citations and other official service-related documents. Other memorabilia of interest includes printed matter, souvenir maps and brochures, menus picture postcards, booklets, etc.

Photographs may be originals or copies of North Carolinians in uniform, and loaned images may be copied and returned at no cost to the owner.

The first scheduled interviews will be with the WWII Veterans, followed by Korean War, Vietnam and Gulf War, in succession.

Any with items to share,or those willing to participate in this project as an interviewee or willing to conduct audio or video interviews with veterans using an easy-to-follow guide, should contact

Terry Henderson
Interim Director, Warren County Memorial Library, 119 S. Front Street, Warrenton, NC 27589, (252) 257-4990, ext. 100.

The assistance of volunteers for this project is considered essential. WWII veterans are passing on at a rate of approximately 1,500 each day. The NC Division of Historical Resources, Military Collection contains only one interview with a veteran from Warren County. The Warren County Memorial Library is asking for the public’s help in saving this piece of history for the county and for the state archives.

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