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World War Two Project

Aikin Regional Archives invites letters or e-mails with first-hand accounts of life in Paris, Lamar County or this region of Texas in the earlier years of our century, especially the 1940s.

Who remembers the home-front in your hometown and the joys and sorrows, the challenges and the hidden rewards of those days? Share them with our readers. Your letters and e-mails will become a permanent part of a special Aikin Archives Collection dedicated to preserving those fast-disappearing memories.

We cannot collect too many of them, as “the greatest generation” is rapidly leaving us. What is a better project in which everyone can engage by either setting down memories in some type of format or by actively collecting them? Save them for the young ones coming behind us so that they will not forget the sacrifices made for our freedom and the sense of community that people experienced in those trying days.

Submitting your letters by mail or by e-mail constitutes permission to publish excerpts from them. All documents become a part of the permanent collection of World War II papers in the Archives at Paris Junior College. You may also enclose photos, which can be scanned and returned to you if you request their return.

Photos of Paris and other towns in the area during the ‘40s are especially desirable for this collection. Think in terms of streets, businesses, churches, recreational sites, Camp Maxey, modes of transportation, even men’s and women’s fashions of the time, and their uniforms. All submissions will be acknowledged, and multiple submissions are welcome.

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