We dip into a half century of diaries of life in McLean County by a carpenter and handyman who wrote fiction and poetry and a log of his daily rounds in Bloomington-Normal. Charles Morgan wrote of freight hopping to Kansas City, going to Nickelodeon movies in the 1910s, the 1918 flu which killed more than 3% of the world population.
And in this episode of GLT's recurring series McHistory, Morgan writes of World War Two.
Contributors to this episode of "McHistory" include McLean County Museum of History Archivist Bill Kemp, Jeff Woodard, the museum Marketing Director. GLT's Charlie Schlenker produces McHistory, which is a co-production of WGLT and the Museum of History using the letters, diaries, and documents of days gone by.
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