Ravenswood, West Virginia

I found an article from USA Today about Ravenswood, West Virginia.  It talks a little bit about how the community started and how the community is now diminishing.
I was thinking of doing this community and starting off talking about the history of the community and how it was in high production during World War II and from there talking about how the community is slowly diminishing.
I posted the link to the article in case you want to look at it.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-01-townhangingon_N.htm

If you could let me know if this sounds like a good idea for my paper.

Thank you! :)

Searching for a Community

I've been trying to find a specific community during the World War II era for a while now and I am struggling with being able to find one.  I have only been able to find that manufacturing increased throughout all of the United States, but can't find any specific communities listed.

One of the main states that keeps coming up is Oregon so I have been trying to do research on communities within Oregon that was greatly impacted by World War II, and can still only find general information.

If you have any suggestions or anything, I'd really appreciate it!!
Thanks!!

First Blog

Hi, my name is Emily Hambright and I am a junior.  My major is community relations with a cognate in history.  I also want to get a teaching degree.  I don't have a lot of experience with history in college because I just changed my major last year (for the fourth time).  Most of the experience I have is with textbooks, but I have used the archives at the library before for my own personal interests.

The time period I am most interested in is around the time of World War II.  This period has always interested me and I would like to look into the impact an industrial community had on the war or how the war impacted a certain community, if that's possible.  I'd also be interested in researching how women took over the jobs only men always did when the men went overseas to fight in the war.  I'm still looking into exactly what I want to do my project on, those are just my ideas for starting.

See you in class!