Monthly Archives: February 2013
World War II & NYC: New York Historical Society Exhibit
How wonderful that an exhibit has opened at the New York Historical Society on World War II & NYC. This exhibit will be open until May 27, 2013. The exhibit has four sections:
1. New York Before Pearl Harbor, 1933–41
2. The New York Home Front, 1942–45
3. Going to War, 1942–45
4. Victory and Loss, 1945
Be sure to explore the site if you cannot attend. Or explore before you go to the exhibit so you can xero in on exhibits that more interest you.
This site has many wonderful photos.
And what about this amazing poster!
And this chilling cartoon:
Do let Home Front Girl Diary know if you have attended and what your impressions were!
This New York Times article by Edward Rothstein reviewing the exhibit has more photos, so be sure to check it out!
This is a lovely new review: I highly recommend Home Front Girl as a primary source for research and insight into the Greatest Generation as so many have called Joan and her peers.
I feel like I have a new friend after reading Home Front Girl. Joan Wehlen was so palpable on the pages of this book, that I wish I had in fact met her and could call her my friend. Full of historical snippets and teenage soliloquys, Home Front Girl is the Yin to Anne Frank’s Yang.
One of my favorite parts is something Joan Wrote at age 17:
“Oh you, my generation! –we were a lovely lot! Sharp minds—arguing all the time and brittle bodies and even more brittle laughter—and all the time knowing that we were growing up to die. Because we weren’t fooled, you know. All through those bright-colored years of adolescence we knew we were growing up to disaster. For at least four years—well, three, before it happened, we knew it was coming. Some sort of inner sense of war lay upon us. We were pretty…
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