NHF_WC_2016_Palmer_Les
2016 June 21
While growing up during WWII, Les Palmer had a paper route that shaped his life as a young adult. He often heard of the major events before the rest of his town due to his job distributing newspapers. He reflects on living in rural Athens, Pennsylvania, with his Victorian-era father, homemaker mother, and his two sisters.
Digital
English
49m 43s
Les Palmer, Interview, National Home Front Project, Washington College, Chestertown Maryland
Interview was recorded by Liz Wiley, Nick Coviello, and Lorenz Iversen for the Starr Center of the American Experience National Homefront Project
C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience (Washington College)
Oral histories
oral histories (literary genre)
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States
Oral histories
oral histories (literary genre)
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States