History in Five: The Manhattan Project’s Secret City

[sherryhoskins]

My mother was recruited from high school. She was born and raised in a small community in Harlan, Kentucky. Oddly enough my son, her oldest grandson, was working for a trucking company that helped dispose of the hazardous waste when they dismantled the Y12 plant. She died at age 92.

[ashelybaldwin]

My grandmother worked there. We're from S.C.
She passed away when I was in 9th grade from cancer that I'm sure was from working here. I really wish I was mature enough at that time to think to ask her to tell me stories from their younger days during the war..her and my Papa too.

[wythetrumpet]

The great women of WWII worked not only in Oak Ridge, but in the Ammunition Plants and factories that produced aircraft and military vehicles. The war could not have been won without these hard working wonderful ladies!

[GriffGardner]

Love the book. My grandmother is in the picture on the cover and in this video at the 3:26 mark. She was a Cal-U-Tron girl.

[annajames]

# 4. At the age of 16, Dolly’s grandma Girtrude met Francis Temple at 21, Francis was captivated by her in 1909, they married a year later in 1910, at age 17, and 22. In 1913 they birthed Dolly’s mother Avia, in 1915, John was birthed by them, in 1916 Elizabeth was birthed by them, in 1919, Junior was born from them, after giving birth to Shirley in 1928, the couple gave themselves a break between 1929-1939. On a September of 1940, they gave birth to their last, another son who they named Bruce Lee Temple.

[annajames]

#3, Dolly Partons Grandmother was born in 1893, in Chicago Illinois, to her mother only 17, and her Father 29, Gertrude was the oldest out of 2 children.

[annajames]

# 5. Dolly Parton’s mother met her dad when she was 15, and he was 26, they married in 90 days, had 10 children, and Dolly was # 8. # 6 While Dolly traveled on the road for singing lessons she meets her husband in 1960, he was captivated from, then and they married in 1969, their only son Terrance was born in 1974. Terrance married in 1992, and they gave birth to Dolly’s twin granddaughters in 2001, they are 20 years old now, and haven’t bore any children yet, the soon to be great grandma of Dolly Parton. Her and her husband are married for 51 years now.

[Hollergirlohio]

I have a grandfather's cousin was recruited from John Hopkins university for the Manhattan project but was stationed in DC.

[billwebster]

The Manhattan Project is without a doubt one of the greatest stories of all time. Regardless of one's views of the outcome, the science, drama, and the massive collaboration by literally thousands came together in a way that would be nearly impossible to duplicate. Although many are familiar with the climactic episode of developing and delivering the bomb; here is a whole different perspective on it as told by those who left their homes and families to live in a secluded unknown location, work on an unknown project in unknown facilities and performing strange tasks about which they had no clue. All that and they could not utter one word about it. How could they live that way? Denise's outstanding presentation of their side of things pulled me in immediately and I couldn't put it down. The result? A couple of very sleepy workdays! Highly recommended. Great job!

[tressarosenbarger]

My aunt Tressa and uncle Newell Lived there for a long time we used to go visit she lived on Temple Road. I think she died in 94

[jeffperkins]

Thank you for your book ..A really wonderful family friend worked there ..got married there and had a child there in 1946 ..Kathleen died this year at age 96...I would often ask her questions and she would talk freely about her experience ..she had a degree in chemistry and probably worked in Y 12 ..I wish I had read the book before she died and I would have understood some of the discussions we had ..Thanks for the book ..You did a marvelous job ...Jeff

[GrannyGamer]

My mom was recruited out of high school. It was her 1st job. She sat on a stool all day at one of those consoles that looks kind of like an old telephone switchboard, monitoring dials and trying to keep them stabilized.
One day, no matter what she did, she could NOT get the needles in the proper positions.
Behind her, she heard a man say, "that's not how you do it."
She was so exasperated, she jumped down off her stool and yelled, "well, if you can do it better, do it yourself!"
The man got on the stool, went flick, turn turn, and the machine settled down.
It wasn't 'til then she realized the guy had a very high security badge.
She was sure the man would get her fired.
Instead, he married her and I called him Dad.

[scooterboi]

I was born and raised in Oak Ridge. Good place to grow up.

[tray]

I wonder if these ladies were exposed to things that were harmful to their health. My mother worked there during this period and she died at 42 of breast cancer. It was hard on me because I was only 13 when she passed away.

[FeliciaFollum]

We live in Richland WA, another one of the cities that was created as a part of the Manhattan Project. I'm looking to see if your book is on audio...

[jojosaylor]

Great Book I just checked this book out at my local library

[michaeldoster]

Nice job. Tasteful and well thoughtout. Very subtle commercial.

[annajames]

Dolly Parton Family History: #1-#2, The Greatest Grandparents that. Dolly Parton Could remember was that her greatest grandmother was born in 1848, and her greatest grandfather in 1844. They gave birth to her great grandma Elizabeth Maude in 1874, she was the youngest amongst 9 girls.

[MrThailik]

Very interesting video and beautiful presenter .

[americanlibertas]

My grandma (dad's mom) worked on the Manhattan Project out in Weldon Spring, Missouri. Died of some weird cancer later on along with everyone else who she was friends with and worked there.