Tour the camps, learn stories of the daily lives of the POWs, and discover the impact they had on the Old Dominion. During World War II, Virginians watched as German and Italian prisoners invaded the Old Dominion. At least 17,000 Germans and countless Italians lived in over twenty camps across the state and worked on...
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Join us for a story time with author Andrea Shapiro as she reads from her children's book Two Thousand Miles to Happy. The story centers on World War II veteran Earl Shaffer who decided to "walk the war out of his system" and became the first person to report hiking the entire length of the...
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