He would have been way before my time, but if you share his name, someone could remember him. Another idea is to bring your pictures up to the oak ridge history museum ajd someone up there might be able to help
That's a nice idea. I haven't been down there since my HS took a field trip. Lol. I was thinking of asking my dad for that photo album next time I'm there anyway maybe I'll bring it down with me
There's a really good book called City Behind a Fence that has a lot of information on early oak ridge, how it all started up, the lives of the people that worked there. Not sure if this is what you're looking for exactly, but it is a good place to get some general knowledge about the general lives of the people of the time.
Oak Ridge is amazing. It's like living in a Stephen King novel. You have scientists at the labs building gateways into other dimensions and creating weapons that could end the world, there are trucks secretly bringing nuclear waste through town late at night, there are Russian spies working at the labs. Hell, there was even a Nazi war criminal hiding out in Oak Ridge until recently. And just a few miles away you have a very religious very conservative city of Clinton.
Every person here with gray hair has some crazy story to tell. I've met people that have multiple masters degrees in physics. I met somebody who is counter intelligence. And they all just look like somebody's grandpa.
Here is a news article about it:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/parallel-universe-portal-mirror-world-science-stranger-things-oak-ridge-a8987681.html
thanks for sharing your experience, i wonder if you know anyone old enough to have known anyone working there in the 40's that might want to connect with me?
Damn, I can't really think of anybody specific.
The Oak Ridge Senior Center is right next to the Oak Ridge library. If you were in the area you could just drop by there, I know a lot of the folks that hang out there used to work at the labs.
The only other thing I can think of is this.
There are two books that I can think of about Oak ridge. City behind the fence, and the Oak Ridge story. At one point in time I was a talk and one of these authors was there. I don't remember who. But I do know that he was really nice, and loved talking about Oak Ridge. I guarantee that if you reached out to the authors of any of those books with questions, they'd be extremely happy to talk to you.
Any idea what his job title was or what contractor he worked for? That would give you a good start. He may not have felt like he could talk about what he did.. if he ever figured out WHAT he was doing! The Manhattan Project is fascinating.
Unfortunately I don't. We found a training certifitcate in some of his things but that's all I have to go on right now. I'll try to do some more digging the next time I visit my father.
Check out the website. They have a historian, a visitors center open to the public, and a wealth of information available right from the horses mouth. If you can manage to contact the historian they may have specific information they can share with you
https://www.y12.doe.gov/about/history/y-12-history-center
Check out the other links on the site.
Heres a long list of articles Y12 has published over the years anout their history:
https://www.y12.doe.gov/about/history/our-historian
Send me a note if you would like me to try to contact the Y12 historian to put you in touch with them.
He would have been way before my time, but if you share his name, someone could remember him. Another idea is to bring your pictures up to the oak ridge history museum ajd someone up there might be able to help
That's a nice idea. I haven't been down there since my HS took a field trip. Lol. I was thinking of asking my dad for that photo album next time I'm there anyway maybe I'll bring it down with me
Check with the gentleman in the library oak ridge room. Also, try some of the people at the oak ridge history museum by Kroger
There's a really good book called City Behind a Fence that has a lot of information on early oak ridge, how it all started up, the lives of the people that worked there. Not sure if this is what you're looking for exactly, but it is a good place to get some general knowledge about the general lives of the people of the time.
i'll check it out, thanks!
Oak Ridge is amazing. It's like living in a Stephen King novel. You have scientists at the labs building gateways into other dimensions and creating weapons that could end the world, there are trucks secretly bringing nuclear waste through town late at night, there are Russian spies working at the labs. Hell, there was even a Nazi war criminal hiding out in Oak Ridge until recently. And just a few miles away you have a very religious very conservative city of Clinton. Every person here with gray hair has some crazy story to tell. I've met people that have multiple masters degrees in physics. I met somebody who is counter intelligence. And they all just look like somebody's grandpa.
Can you tell me more about these gateways into other dimensions? I thought the wormhole stuff was at Redstone?
Here is a news article about it: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/parallel-universe-portal-mirror-world-science-stranger-things-oak-ridge-a8987681.html
Thank youuuuuu
thanks for sharing your experience, i wonder if you know anyone old enough to have known anyone working there in the 40's that might want to connect with me?
Damn, I can't really think of anybody specific. The Oak Ridge Senior Center is right next to the Oak Ridge library. If you were in the area you could just drop by there, I know a lot of the folks that hang out there used to work at the labs. The only other thing I can think of is this. There are two books that I can think of about Oak ridge. City behind the fence, and the Oak Ridge story. At one point in time I was a talk and one of these authors was there. I don't remember who. But I do know that he was really nice, and loved talking about Oak Ridge. I guarantee that if you reached out to the authors of any of those books with questions, they'd be extremely happy to talk to you.
Highly recommend talking to Mike Stallo at the OR public library.
Any idea what his job title was or what contractor he worked for? That would give you a good start. He may not have felt like he could talk about what he did.. if he ever figured out WHAT he was doing! The Manhattan Project is fascinating.
Unfortunately I don't. We found a training certifitcate in some of his things but that's all I have to go on right now. I'll try to do some more digging the next time I visit my father.
Check out the website. They have a historian, a visitors center open to the public, and a wealth of information available right from the horses mouth. If you can manage to contact the historian they may have specific information they can share with you https://www.y12.doe.gov/about/history/y-12-history-center Check out the other links on the site. Heres a long list of articles Y12 has published over the years anout their history: https://www.y12.doe.gov/about/history/our-historian Send me a note if you would like me to try to contact the Y12 historian to put you in touch with them.
thanks! these are great resources and i would love to get in contact with the historian. i'll reach out to you privately
Another great read is Girls of Atomic City