The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Thursday, February 15, 2018

WPA Work on Stadium Suspended in Roanoke and Noted Author Speaks


From the March 27, 2017, Roanoke (Va.) Times  "Looking Back."

1942, 75 Years Ago.

**  "Temporary suspension of WPA work on the uncompleted stadium was announced yesterday."

**  "William L. Shirer, famous for his best-selling "Berlin Diary," his on-the-scene description of events in Berlin during the first two years of the war over the Columbia Broadcasting System, and his subsequent analysis over CBS, will speak at the Academy of Music this evening at 8:30 o'clock."

--GreGen

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