Updating a local history book

The Wayne County Historical Society is updating and reprinting Wayne County Looking Back, a book most fourth grade students use to study local history. The Society is looking for pictures that show any of the Prisoner of War Camps that were in Wayne County during World War II.

In 1973, during Wayne County's Sesquicentennial celebration, Dorothy Facer, who was the County Historian at the time, compiled a packet of information students could use to prepare for the first Wayne County History Jamboree, held in Macedon Center. Later, in an attempt to make the packet an acceptable tool for the younger student, a committee was formed to re-work it.

Mary Ann Bliek, then a teacher in the Williamson district, wrote the original draft for the committee. The result of their work was the original version of Wayne County Looking Back, published in 1980.

When the book was reviewed for reprinting, it was decided that some of the text needed updating. Chapters containing information on the 15 towns of Wayne County, the Ontario Iron Ore Industry, Sodus Point Lighthouse, St. Peter, and World War II Prisoner of War Camps will be added. To go with the chapter on Prisoner of War Camps, a picture is needed.

Call 946.4943.

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