“The store was where everyone found each other”
Life on and around a military base: the church that organized the first gatherings, the grocery that became a message board, and the network of women who found one another through both.
Background
EXAMPLE PAGE — replace all of this. She arrived in North Carolina in 1968 and opened a small grocery near the base in 1974, which stayed open for thirty-one years.
Selected passages
- 08:20
- Who came through the door in the first year.
- 52:00
- On the church, and the women who ran it.
- 1:38:10
- What happened to the neighborhood after the store closed.
Related material
Photographs and documents connected to this interview are in the archive.
Cite this interview
Interview with [Narrator], [date], Korean War & Military Brides Project, https://kwasant7.github.io/kwb-project/