W.M. Wallace
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Photo courtesy: Albert W. Durant Collection, Visual Resources, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Principal Rice with James City County Training School students
Mr. W.M. Wallace provided these reflections as part of the Oral History Community Nights hosted by Colonial Williamsburg during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The clips are excerpts from The Depression Years, one of several films produced from these oral history nights. The full film can be viewed here.
Film Credit: Media Collections, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Mr. Wallace remembers working at Colonial Williamsburg at a young age to help meet the needs of his family.
Mr. Wallace recalls his desires to do more than just work in Colonial Williamsburg.
Mr. Wallace discusses the families who moved out of Magruder when the Navy took the land during WWII.
Mr. Wallace explains that he stayed in Williamsburg to be a role model, as others had been for him.
Mr. Wallace and others give final remarks and provide thoughts for the future.
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