7. Info Sources

The two subsections of this "Information Sources" section copy two fansites that are particularly helpful for appreciating Steven Antin's Young Americans (YA).  One is the "News" page of the "Rawley Academy" fansite, now accessible only courtesy of the "WayBack Machine" of The Internet Archive (Archive.org), as it appeared in late 2001.  It provides links to a number of informative press articles and interviews from 2000 and 2001.  The second is a page of a fansite that provides information, not readily available elsewhere, about the filming locations of YA, to which I have added information in notes.

For appreciation of Young Americans (YA), two other online sites also seem particularly helpful.  Sadly, both are fansites, and one is now accessible only courtesy of The Internet Archive (Archive.org).

-- Rawley Academy Online (RAO), the show's "official site," a section of the website of Sony Pictures, since 2002 the successor company of Columbia TriStar, which produced YA for The WB network.  RAO, accessible at http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/youngamericans/ until June 2011, is now accessible only courtesy of The Internet Archive's "WayBack Machine," which has preserved most of it.  Material on RAO varies greatly in quality, from atrociously bad one-sentence summaries of the protagonists' characters to material that fills in gaps in the show, such as a message to new Rawley students from the Dean, and Scout Calhoun's article in the school newspaper, The Rawley Rag. RAO offers cast bios, episode summaries, and music credits.  It has been a source of much material about YA found elsewhere online.

-- Selected posts by the management of the "Young Americans" board of Fanforum.com, particularly the lead post on its Music_of_YA thread and the lead post on its links thread.

Until 2013, perhaps the most informative individually maintained fan site about YA was Strawberry Lane, which provided not only scripts of all eight aired episodes and the unaired pilot, but also the scripts of many cut scenes, lyrics of songs in the YA soundtrack, and the text of poems and other works of literature discussed in YA. The "Hazyphase.net" domain on which Strawberry Lane originally was hosted ceased to exist in 2011; the Strawberry Lane files were then transferred to "The Five-Eight," a domain that provided the graphics and scripts for the tripod.com-hosted Oxblood fan site, which also had a very useful 'Young Americans' section.  "The Five-Eight" domain ceased to exist in 2013, and both Strawberry Lane and. the graphics for the Oxblood site disappeared with it. The YA-related content of neither domain appears to have been preserved by Archive.org.  Much of the information previously available on the Strawberry Lane and Oxblood sites is now presented here on Rawley Revisited.

Ichabod Grubb

First posted January 2011

Last updated May December 2016